Francis Ngannou is officially the baddest man on the UFC roster, taking the heavyweight championship from Stipe Miocic via second-round knockout at UFC 260 on Saturday…
Francis Ngannou is officially the baddest man on the UFC roster, taking the heavyweight championship from Stipe Miocic via second-round knockout at UFC 260 on Saturday…
Polarizing UFC bantamweight contender, Sean O’Malley is back in the winner’s enclosure, via a spectacular ground strike knockout win over gritty Brazilian Muay Thai ace, Thomas Almeida in the third round of their UFC 260 main card matchup. Poised from round one to three, the Montana native rattled Almeida with a quite frankly massive left […]
Polarizing UFC bantamweight contender, Sean O’Malley is back in the winner’s enclosure, via a spectacular ground strike knockout win over gritty Brazilian Muay Thai ace, Thomas Almeida in the third round of their UFC 260 main card matchup.
Poised from round one to three, the Montana native rattled Almeida with a quite frankly massive left high-kick, with the Sao Paulo native somehow surviving the scare, as O’Malley made the mistake of attempting a walk-off finish — with referee Marc Smith urging him to keep fighting.
Eating his fair share of leg kicks in the second round, O’Malley countered Almeida well once more in the second, before landing the fight ending shot in the third and final frame.
Clipping an imcoming Almeida with a left hand, the Brazilian fell to his back on the canvas, before O’Malley sprang with a massive ground strike, knocking the Brazilian out cold to score his return to winning-ways.
Below, catch the highlights from O’Malley knockout stoppage over Almeida.
Next up on the UFC 260 main card is a bantamweight bout between Sean O’Malley and Thomas Almeida. Round 1: O’Malley starts off with a teep kick. Lots of kicks being employed early on by O’Malley. Almeida lands a leg kick but receives a stinging one in return from O’Malley. O’Malley is controlling the center […]
Next up on the UFC 260 main card is a bantamweight bout between Sean O’Malley and Thomas Almeida.
Round 1: O’Malley starts off with a teep kick. Lots of kicks being employed early on by O’Malley. Almeida lands a leg kick but receives a stinging one in return from O’Malley. O’Malley is controlling the center of the Octagon. O’Malley connects with a body kick and follows it with a spinning back kick to the body. Almeida responds with a short flurry. O’Malley connects with a head kick and drops Almeida soon after. O’Malley walks away but the fight is still going on as Almeida manages to survive the resulting onslaught from O’Malley. Almeida eats two head kicks and connects with a right hand in a flurry. The round comes to an end.
Round 2: O’Malley stings Almeida with a low kick. Almeida responds with a body kick. O’Malley misses a spinning wheel kick. O’Malley slips as Almeida attacks the legs. O’Malley continues to teep the left lead leg of Almeida. O’Malley connects with a straight left. Almeida misses a spinning wheel kick. Almeida eats a front kick to the body. Almeida is pressured by O’Malley who responds with a big leg kick that forces O’Malley to back off. O’Malley slips during an encounter as Almeida lands a big punch but is unable to enter his guard with O’Malley threatening with up kicks. The round ends.
Round 3: O’Malley hurts Almeida with a huge leg kick. Almeida eats a teep kick to that leg soon after. Both fighters exchange in flurries but O’Malley is the one connecting more. O’Malley lands some stinging jabs. Almeida lands big a leg kick. O’Malley drops Almeida with a short left hand and knocks him out cold with a right on the ground!
Official result:Sean O’Malley defeats Thomas Almeida via knockout (R3, 3:52).
LowKick MMA will be bringing you UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou II results throughout the afternoon (Sat. 27th. March 2021) from the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. Taking main event honours in the promotion’s return to a pay-per-view schedule, a massive heavyweight championship rematch between the consensus greatest heavyweight of all time, as Stipe Miocic looks […]
LowKick MMA will be bringing you UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou II results throughout the afternoon (Sat. 27th. March 2021) from the UFC Apex facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Taking main event honours in the promotion’s return to a pay-per-view schedule, a massive heavyweight championship rematch between the consensus greatest heavyweight of all time, as Stipe Miocic looks to defend his championship against 2018 foe, the devasatating puncher, Francis Ngannou.
Hoping to improve to 2-0 over the Cameroonian challenger, Miocic took home a dominant unanimous decision victory over Ngannou at UFC 220 back in January of 2018, handing Ngannou his first promotional defeat.
In the time since, Miocic featured in a trilogy against two-weight champion, Daniel Cormier, with the former taking bragging-rights last August at UFC 252, taking a unanimous judging win over Cormier, ending the tie with a 2-1 record.
Following a consecutive defeat to Derrick Lewis in arguably the most forgettable matchup the division has ever seen, the Xtreme Couture trainee has returned to the top of the heavyweight pile, with a quartet of opening minute knockout victories over Curtis Bladyes, Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, and last May — stopped Jairzinho Rozenstruik in just twenty-seconds.
Featuring in a promoted co-main event, former welterweight champion, Tyron Woodley returns, attempting to snap a three-fight slide as he matches against the gritty #10 ranked, Vicente Luque.
Dropping a trio of defeats to Kamaru Usman, Gilbert Burns, and Colby Covington, Woodley’s most recent victory came back in September of 2018, stopping Darren Till with a second round D’Arce to score his third and final welterweight title defence.
For New Jersey born finisher, Luque, he’s rebounded from a one-sided unanimous decision loss to Stephen Thompson back in November of 2019, to lodge two massive knockout wins over both Niko Price, and Randy Brown in May and August of last year, respectively.
UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou Results
Main Card: (ESPN+ PPV 10 p.m. ET)
Heavyweight: Stipe Miocic (c) vs. Francis Ngannou II
Welterweight: Tyron Woodley vs. Vicente Luque
Bantamweight: Sean O’Malley vs. Thomas Almeida
Flyweight: Gillian Robertson vs. Miranda Maverick
Lightweight: Jamie Mullarkey vs. Khama Worthy
Preliminary Card: (ESPN/ESPN+ 8 p.m. ET)
Catchweight (206.5-pounds): Alonzo Menifield vs. Fabio Cherant
Welterweight: Jared Gooden vs. Abubakar Nurmagomedov
Light Heavyweight: Modestas Bukauskas vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk
Featherweight: Shane Young vs. Omar Morales
Early Preliminary Card: (ESPN+/UFC Fight Pass 7:30 p.m. ET)
Middleweight: Marc-Andre Barriault vs. Abu Azaitar
Sean O’Malley is eagerly anticipating the upcoming boxing bout between YouTube star Jake Paul and Ben Askren. Paul transitioned to professional boxing in 2020 and has been successful against extremely low-level opposition. Most notably, the 24-year-old knocked out former NBA player Nate Robinson on the undercard of Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. Askren retired […]
Paul transitioned to professional boxing in 2020 and has been successful against extremely low-level opposition.
Most notably, the 24-year-old knocked out former NBA player Nate Robinson on the undercard of Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr.
Askren retired from MMA in 2019 citing a linger hip injury.
The former ONE Championship and Bellator titleholder is best known for his elite-level grappling skills.
He’ll be making his boxing debut when he faces Paul on April 17.
Speaking to media ahead of his fight at UFC 260, O’Malley revealed that he is excited to watch Paul and Askren square off.
“There’s not a lot of fights that excite me, and this ain’t gonna be the best boxing fight,” O’Malley said. “This isn’t gonna be like a good, technical boxing fight, but I’m excited. I’m excited for that fight. I’m gonna watch it. I’m gonna be excited fight week. I’m gonna watch if they have any little Embeddeds or whatever they’re putting out. I’m watching.
“I wanna see that fight. I don’t know, Ben vs. Jake, it’s exciting. It’s gonna be a sloppy, sloppy fight. Ben’s gonna make it sloppy, which is good for him. Jake, he looks like he’s training hard. He’s young, he’s athletic, so if he doesn’t beat Ben Askren, we’ll see where he goes from there. He has to beat Ben to show he’s a legitimate boxer.”
O’Malley is leaning towards Paul getting the job done next month.
“I wanna say Jake because he’s gonna be a better boxer,” O’Malley said. “Ben’s such a good competitor – it’s not gonna be a good boxing fight. It’s gonna be grueling. God, I hope Jake doesn’t come in there and try to put his lights out in the first round, two rounds. He’s gonna gas out and Ben’s gonna be there.
“Ben’s gonna be there all eight rounds. I don’t think Ben’s gonna gas. I think if Jake comes out calm, stays calm fight week, stays calm fight day, doesn’t get too excited and just blow his load the first couple of rounds, I think he can outbox him. If he stays behind his jab and doesn’t let Ben do what Ben wants to do, I think Jake could get the job done.” (Transcribed by MMA Junkie)
Do you agree with Sean O’Malley? Is Jake Paul going to beat Ben Askren on April 17?
Casey Kenney was recently under fire for his recent comments about Megan Anderson on Sean O’Malley’s podcast, but “Suga” doesn’t think Anderson should be offended. On the podcast, O’Malley’s coach, Tim Welch, a…
Casey Kenney was recently under fire for his recent comments about Megan Anderson on Sean O’Malley’s podcast, but “Suga” doesn’t think Anderson should be offended. On the podcast, O’Malley’s coach, Tim Welch, asked Kenney if he would sleep with Anderson, in which Kenney said only if he was hammered and it was at four in […]