The Final Preventing Championship returns to us tonight, June 29, 2024 for UFC 303, taking place reside from the T-Cell Enviornment in Paradise, Nevada.
Headlining the occasion is a light-heavyweight championship rematch between present champion Alex Pereira (10-2) and no. 1 ranked former champion Jiri Prochazka (30-4-1).
Co-headlining the occasion is a light-weight bout between a pair of featherweight contenders in no. 3 ranked former title challenger Brian Ortega (16-3) and no. 14 ranked Diego Lopes (24-6).
Opening up our common preliminary card tonight was a bantamweight bout between Payton Talbott (9-0) and Yanis Ghemmouri (12-3).
Talbott got here into the bout as a hefty favourite, and for good motive although he was going through somebody with twice the expertise as himself.
Proceed studying to see how our UFC 303 preliminary card opener went down:
Official Outcome: Payton Talbott def. Yanis Ghemmouri by way of TKO (punches) at :19 of spherical one
Talbott threw a leg kick on the market about 10 seconds in earlier than discovering the vary along with his jab. Instantly after throwing his jab he adopted it up with a good looking, vicious proper cross that floored Ghemmouri on the spot.
A number of observe up photographs later and the referee was compelled to tug Talbott off the Frenchman.
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Following a 5-0 stint as an beginner that showcased 5 finishes Talbott turned skilled in late 2021, making it to 2-0 within three months earlier than being known as as much as struggle at Urijah Faber’s A1 Fight promotion.
There he went on to complete opponents with information of 4-2, 5-3-1, and 8-1-1, knocking all three of them out earlier than making an look on Dana White’s Contender Sequence final August. He battered 7-2 opponent Reyes Cortez on that night time, successful the unanimous resolution and getting awarded a UFC contract following.
Since then Talbott has picked up three-straight wins, submitting 7-1 Nick Aguirre with a 3rd spherical rear bare choke, completely battering and TKO’ing 9-1 Cameron Saaiman 21 seconds into spherical two in March, a really extremely touted younger gun like himself, and now knocking out 12-2 Yanis Ghemmouri tonight.
At simply 25 years of age Payton Talbott has a really shiny future forward of him.
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