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Alonzo Menifield lands thunderous first round KO win against Misha Cirkunov – UFC Vegas 62 Highlights

Alonzo MenifieldUnder the tutelage of Pat Barry for his UFC Vegas 62 main card opener, Alonzo Menifield turns in a spectacular first round knockout win over Misha Cirkunov — dropping the veteran with a big shot before following up with brutal ground strikes to kick off tonight’s main card with a bang. Fresh off another massive […]

Alonzo Menifield

Under the tutelage of Pat Barry for his UFC Vegas 62 main card opener, Alonzo Menifield turns in a spectacular first round knockout win over Misha Cirkunov — dropping the veteran with a big shot before following up with brutal ground strikes to kick off tonight’s main card with a bang.

Fresh off another massive knockout win over Askar Mozharov back in June of this year, Menfield took just over 90 seconds to dispatch Cirukunov in their main card opener, dropping the veteran on the feet before following up with brutal ground strikes to lodge career knockout win number 10 from 13 professional victories.

Below, catch the highlights from Alonzo Menifield’s stunning first round KO win

Alonzo Menifield Lodges Quickfire Von Flue Choke Win Over Fabio Cherant – UFC 260 Highlights

Alonzo MenifieldDana White’s Contender Series alum, ‘Atomic’ Alonzo Menifield has snapped his two-fight skid — submitting promotional debutante, Fabio Cherant with a quickfire opening round Von Flue choke. Racing across the Octagon to engage with the now 7-2, Cherant, Menifield almost gave up his neck to standing guillotine, before scoring a notable takedown, as Cherant continued […]

Alonzo Menifield

Dana White’s Contender Series alum, ‘Atomic’ Alonzo Menifield has snapped his two-fight skid — submitting promotional debutante, Fabio Cherant with a quickfire opening round Von Flue choke.

Racing across the Octagon to engage with the now 7-2, Cherant, Menifield almost gave up his neck to standing guillotine, before scoring a notable takedown, as Cherant continued to hang onto the front choke as Menifield worked to half guard. Maintaining position, Menifield began to work toward that Von Flue, eventually forcing the tap from Cherant who was left with nowhere to go as faced either Menifield on one side, or the Octagon fence on the other.

Below, check out the highlights from Menifield’s timely submission success over Cherant.

EXCLUSIVE | Alonzo Menifield ‘Gunning’ For 1st Round KO Of William Knight

Alonzo MenifieldAfter an unsuccessful 2020, UFC Light-Heavyweight Alonzo Menifield is ready to show the world he can compete with the best 205 has to offer. Menifield’s potential return to winning ways starts out with William Knight on February 27. “Atomic” (9-2) blew through his competition on the regional scene, without ever seeing the 3rd round. With […]

Alonzo Menifield

After an unsuccessful 2020, UFC Light-Heavyweight Alonzo Menifield is ready to show the world he can compete with the best 205 has to offer. Menifield’s potential return to winning ways starts out with William Knight on February 27.

“Atomic” (9-2) blew through his competition on the regional scene, without ever seeing the 3rd round. With six straight finishes, Menifield got to showcase his skills on Dana White’s Contender Series, where he picked up another finish to impress to the boss. Contract in hand, the prolific perpetrator of knockouts would secure 2 more stoppages, this time in the Octagon.

Menifield’s success was stopped momentarily when he was handed back-to-back losses against Devin Clark and Ovince St. Preux, he endured the first loss and losing streak of his career.

“2020 I guess overall was a down year for me but given my whole life.” Menifield told LowKick MMA. “It is what it is.”

“I keep going and keep looking forward and yeah, I’m definitely ready to put on a show in 2021. I got all my avenues as far as training and skill-wise. I’m ready to perform, show how the fans why I was a top highly-touted individual. [To] improve not for them but just for myself. I’m excited.”

With a date now set for February 27 and 2020 out of the picture, the 33-year-old says there is a lot to ‘pick apart’ from his opponent, William Knight.

“He’s up and coming and with that said, I see a lot of openings. Overall I think it’s a great matchup. I’m looking forward to it.”

The UFC matchmakers received their fair share of credit for making this fight happen. The two Light-Heavyweight prospects have only made it the to decision once each in the entirety of their careers. Menifield chimed in on the probability of him and his opponent making it to the scorecards.

“I mean, I don’t know given the nature. I wouldn’t want it to go early.”

“I noticed the dude [Knight] said something on Instagram saying ‘don’t blink’. So I take that in a full offense, so I’ll be gunning to take him out in the first round. If it happens, it happens. I’m [also] ready to go through a 3 round war.”

Whatever the case may be, Alonzo Menifield will be bringing the power of the atom come February 27th.

Ovince Saint Preux Flattens Alonzo Menifield With Massive Second-Round KO – UFC Vegas 9 Highlights

Saint PreuxPicking his shots, shrewdly for the opening ten minutes or so – one-time interim UFC light heavyweight title challenger, Ovince Saint Preux picked a massive counter hook to face plant prospect, Alonzo Menifield in the second round. Scoring double digits body kicks with round and teep variations, veteran light heavyweight mainstay eventually landed a massive […]

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Picking his shots, shrewdly for the opening ten minutes or so – one-time interim UFC light heavyweight title challenger, Ovince Saint Preux picked a massive counter hook to face plant prospect, Alonzo Menifield in the second round.

Scoring double digits body kicks with round and teep variations, veteran light heavyweight mainstay eventually landed a massive counter hook, to stop Menifield in his tracks with a minute left in the penultimate frame.

Rebounding from a brief heavyweight excursion loss to Ben Rothwell – Saint Preux called for a third Octagon appearance of this year during his post-fight interview with Jon Anik. With his stoppage of Fortis MMA mainstay, Menifield – Von Flue choke specialist, Saint Preux notched his thirteenth Octagon victory.

Check out OSP’s stunning finish of Menifield, below.

Ovince St Preux Sleeps Alonzo Menifield – UFC Vegas 9 Results

Ovince St PreuxIn the UFC Vegas 9 co-main event we have an intriguing light-heavyweight match-up between long-time contender Ovince St Preux and Alonzo Menifield who is a relative newcomer to the UFC with two wins in three appearances since joining the promotion last year. Round 1: Alonzo Menifield comes out aggressive early, swinging big shots. Ovince St […]

Ovince St Preux

In the UFC Vegas 9 co-main event we have an intriguing light-heavyweight match-up between long-time contender Ovince St Preux and Alonzo Menifield who is a relative newcomer to the UFC with two wins in three appearances since joining the promotion last year.

Round 1: Alonzo Menifield comes out aggressive early, swinging big shots. Ovince St Preux eats a couple of them and seems comfortable with the power his opponent possesses. The two fighters clinch up against the fence. Menifield has ‘OSP’ pressed up against the cage. They separate and St Preux fires off some nice body kicks. He looks huge in there tonight. He swarms forward and catches Menifield with a nice straight right. The light-heavyweight is doing a good job of keeping his opponent at bay. Menifield is trying to work his way in but hasn’t been able to so far. He land a big shot over the top which seems to knock ‘OSP’ off-balance. Menifield finds his range just as the round comes to a close he dips under several St Preux punches and cracks him with heavy return shots.

Round 2: ‘OSP’ hits a heavy leg kick but Menifield eats it and throws one upstairs. St Preux is loading up with his shots, Menifield is easily sliding out of the way of them. ‘OSP’ keeps firing the front kick down the middle. It doesn’t seem to be causing damage but is allowing him to control the fight and keep his man at distance. Menifield is being patient, almost too patient right now. St Preux is staying busy – he lands a couple upstairs. Menifield begins to steam forward, he seems to wobble his opponent. He charges forward again but is caught by a beautiful left hook counter. Menifield is out!

OFFICIAL RESULT: Ovince St Preux def. Alonzo Menifield via KO in round 2

UFC on ESPN+ 34 Highlights: Ovince Saint Preux Ices Alonzo Menifield

Ovince Saint Preux vs. Alonzo Menifield was an interesting co-main event.  The two fighters met in a light heavyweight bout on Saturday night (September 5, 2020) at the UFC on ESPN+ 34 event from Las Vegas, Nevada at the UFC APEX. The slow-paced f…

Ovince Saint Preux vs. Alonzo Menifield was an interesting co-main event.  The two fighters met in a light heavyweight bout on Saturday night (September 5, 2020) at the UFC on ESPN+ 34 event from Las Vegas, Nevada at the UFC APEX. The slow-paced fight was pretty much one-sided by OSP. In the late part of […]

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