Tyson Pedro entered his matchup at UFC 278 as a significant favorite, and he needed just over a minute to dispatch Harry Hunsucker. Kicking off the event’s main card, Hunsucker was making the drop down to light heavyweight after suffering knockou…
Tyson Pedro entered his matchup at UFC 278 as a significant favorite, and he needed just over a minute to dispatch Harry Hunsucker. Kicking off the event’s main card, Hunsucker was making the drop down to light heavyweight after suffering knockout losses in his first two UFC bouts as a heavyweight. Pedro still appeared to…
Tyson Pedro scored a statement win in his comeback against Harry Hunsucker at UFC 278. Going into the bout off an incredible knockout win over Isaac Villanueva, Pedro was looking to extend his winning run with a victory over Hunsucker, who was working to get back to winning ways after dropping two in a row. […]
Tyson Pedro scored a statement win in his comeback against Harry Hunsucker at UFC 278.
Going into the bout off an incredible knockout win over Isaac Villanueva, Pedro was looking to extend his winning run with a victory over Hunsucker, who was working to get back to winning ways after dropping two in a row. They clashed on the main card of UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards 2 at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Pedro started things off composed and looked for that big shot. Hunsucker put in a good showing but was unable to cause any real damage to the Australian. A stinging jab from Pedro rocked Hunsucker before Pedro capitalized with a huge body kick to crumple Hunsucker in his comeback.
Pedro defeated Hunsucker by TKO in Round 1 (1:05).
Below, catch the highlights from Tyson Pedro vs. Harry Hunsucker
Harry Hunsucker is beginning to get sick of the sight of Australian fighters standing across from him inside the Octagon. Despite being 0-2 in the UFC and just 7-5 in professional MMA, Hunsucker is set to have the chance to impress in a pay-per-view ma…
Harry Hunsucker is beginning to get sick of the sight of Australian fighters standing across from him inside the Octagon. Despite being 0-2 in the UFC and just 7-5 in professional MMA, Hunsucker is set to have the chance to impress in a pay-per-view main card opener tonight in Utah. There, “The Hurricane” will be…
Harry Hunsucker is set to take on Tyson Pedro this weekend in the opening bout of the UFC 278 PPV main card. Hunsucker, who is making the move down to light heavyweight for this bout, recently spoke with LowKickMMA’s Frank Bonada about the upcoming fight. ‘The Hurricane’ seemed to imply that he believes he is […]
Harry Hunsucker is set to take on Tyson Pedro this weekend in the opening bout of the UFC 278 PPV main card.
Hunsucker, who is making the move down to light heavyweight for this bout, recently spoke with LowKickMMA’s Frank Bonada about the upcoming fight. ‘The Hurricane’ seemed to imply that he believes he is being placed in this fight simply to make his opponent look good, but this has only incentivized him further:
“Let’s be 100 percent honest, all the pressure here is on Tyson Pedro,” stated Hunsucker. “He’s the show pony right now. I’m just the guy they’re bringing in to fight him. We know what it is… When I show up as the guy I’m going to show up as next weekend, there’s gonna be a lot of heads turned, I’ll just say that.”
Harry Hunsucker has never gone to the judge’s decision in his entire pro-MMA career, whilst his upcoming Tyson Pedro has only gone the distance once. However, Hunsucker believes the fight may well go longer than many expect:
“I honestly think you’ll see this fight go a lot later than anyone would expect to. He’s gonna get frustrated because he’s gonna have to do a lot of moving to keep up with me. So I think that it’s going to be – I think this will be a very surprising fight for everyone to watch.”
Harry Hunsucker on the move to 205lbs
Harry Hunsucker is finally making the move to light heavyweight, a change that has been on the horizon for some time. No longer will ‘The Hurricane’ be giving up height, reach and weight to his natural heavyweight opponents. He stated the following:
“Obviously taking that extra weight off my body is gonna put it in a better state to perform. I’m not gonna be giving up fifty, sixty, pounds to guys like I have pretty much every fight since I’ve been a heavyweight. I mean Tafa, my last fight, he’s the first UFC heavyweight in history to miss weight. He had fifty-plus pounds on me on fight day. Now the cut to 205 really has been easy for me… I’m evening the playing field, I’m not giving up weight and height anymore.”
Hunsucker vs. Pedro opens the UFC 278 main card, which also features exciting bouts such as Jose Aldo vs. Merab Dvalishvili, Paulo Costa vs. Luke Rockhold, and of course, the welterweight title fight between Kamaru Usman and Leon Edwards.
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UFC heavyweight, Justin Tafa made it six knockout wins from six professional triumphs tonight on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 45 — stopping Harry Hunsucker with a thunderous opening round high-kick. The Auckland native, who incidentally, became the first heavyweight in the history of the organization to miss weight yesterday, came in at 267lbs, […]
UFC heavyweight, Justin Tafa made it six knockout wins from six professional triumphs tonight on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 45 — stopping Harry Hunsucker with a thunderous opening round high-kick.
The Auckland native, who incidentally, became the first heavyweight in the history of the organization to miss weight yesterday, came in at 267lbs, two pounds beyond the division limit, drawing notable attention.
Dropping Hunsucker early in the first round, Tafa then shrugged the challenger off before launching a left high kick at the fence, and despite managing to block the kick with both forearms, Hunsucker was dropped, suffering a opening round knockout loss to the New Zealand native.