Ulberg dominates Reyes with first-round KO at UFC Fight Night in Perth | Mixed Martial Arts News

Carlos Ulberg dropped Dominick Reyes within the opening spherical for his ninth straight win at UFC Struggle Evening in Australia.

New Zealand’s Carlos Ulberg made quick work of the Final Combating Championship (UFC) gentle heavyweight title challenger Dominick Reyes on Saturday night time with a simple first-round stoppage at 4:27 at UFC Struggle Evening in Perth, Australia.

Ulberg (13-1 MMA) saved his messaging easy following his ninth consecutive UFC win, confirming his attendance for subsequent Saturday’s UFC 320 title struggle rematch in Las Vegas between Russian Magomed Ankalaev (21-1, 1 NC, or no contest) and ex-light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira (12-3) of Brazil.

“I’m coming [for the belt],” Ulberg mentioned following the struggle.

Ulberg dominated the principle occasion bout from the outset, relentlessly coming ahead and stifling Reyes’s punches.

Following a straight left punch that appeared to stun Reyes, Ulberg then seized his alternative with lower than a minute remaining within the opening spherical, unleashing an enormous proper hook that knocked the American to the bottom, ending the struggle.

Reyes’s (15-4 MMA) loss on Sunday snapped his three-fight profitable streak, and it was his first knockout/technical knockout (KO/TKO) loss since November 2022 to Ryan Spann.

“My purpose with Reyes was to field him, and he felt the ability early, and I noticed in his eyes that he didn’t need to really feel that once more, so the subsequent alternative I went with the 2 and dropped him,” Ulberg mentioned.

 The co-headliner occasion at gentle heavyweight noticed the house nation’s Jimmy Crute (14-4-2) win back-to-back fights, this time beating Croatia’s Ivan Erslan (14-6) by rear-naked-choke at 3:19 of the primary spherical.

Erslan continues to be with out a UFC win by means of three appearances, final coming away with a victory in February 2024. In the meantime, Crute’s submission was the sixth of his profession.

Featherweight Jack Jenkins of Australia used his quantity putting and ahead motion to beat the all the time sturdy Ramon Taveras of america by unanimous choice: 30-27, 30-27, 29-28.

Jenkins (14-4) has received 5 of his final seven, whereas Taveras (10-4) has misplaced three of his final 5 and has gone greater than 20 months with out a win.

For the second straight struggle, UFC welterweight veteran Neil Magny of the US saved the submission pattern rolling with a D’arce choke towards Australian fan favorite Jake Matthews at 3:08 of the third spherical.

Magny (31-14) survived an early onslaught from Matthews (22-8) earlier than rallying to safe his twenty fourth UFC win and enhance his profitable streak to 2.