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Anthony Smith Takes TKO Win Over Jimmy Crute Who Suffers Leg Injury – UFC 261 Highlights

Smith Anthony ‘Lionheart’ Smith has scored his second consecutive victory, taking a first round win over Jimmy Crute, however, it didn’t come in the most ideal circumstances for the Nebraksa native. Scoring notable jabs from the onset and throughout their opening round clash, Smith was suffering with some calf kick attempts from Crute, before he replied […]

Anthony ‘Lionheart’ Smith has scored his second consecutive victory, taking a first round win over Jimmy Crute, however, it didn’t come in the most ideal circumstances for the Nebraksa native.

Scoring notable jabs from the onset and throughout their opening round clash, Smith was suffering with some calf kick attempts from Crute, before he replied with a single leg offence of his own. Landing directly behind the knee of Crute, Smith immediately drew a wobble from the Australian.

Appearing to suffer from ‘drop foot’, akin to Sean O’Malley against Marlon Vera, Henry Cejudo against Demetrious Johnson, and Michael Chandler against Brent Primus — Crute was forced to immediately shoot for a takedown on two separate occasions prior to the first round klaxon.

Failing to make it back to his stool in between rounds without a stumble, the Octagon-sided physician beckoned Crute to walk toward him in the centre of the Octagon, which he couldn’t do without stumbling. It’s not ideal circumstances for Smith but he’s now riding a two-fight rise.

Below, check out the highlights from Smith’s doctor’s stoppge sucess against Crute.

Anthony Smith Gets TKO After Jimmy Crute’s Leg Gives Out – UFC 261 Results

Kicking off the UFC 261 main card is a light heavyweight encounter between Anthony Smith and Jimmy Crute. Round 1: A lot of feeling out before Crute lands a body kick and follows it up with a leg kick. Smith backs Crute up with a jab. Smith stings him with a jab a few moments […]

Kicking off the UFC 261 main card is a light heavyweight encounter between Anthony Smith and Jimmy Crute.

Round 1: A lot of feeling out before Crute lands a body kick and follows it up with a leg kick. Smith backs Crute up with a jab. Smith stings him with a jab a few moments later. Crute lands a few of his leg kicks but it’s the jabs from Smith that are the most impactful. Crute, however, is making problems for Smith with his leg kicks. Smith lands a leg kick but avoids a big shot from Crute. Smith drops Crute with a leg kick but the Aussie responds with a well-timed takedown attempt and lands a number of strikes. Smith gets up but Crute takes him down again. The round ends but Crute can’t even stand up properly. He probably took nerve damage as the fight is at risk of being stopped. The fight is stopped.

Official result: Anthony Smith defeats Jimmy Crute via TKO doctor stoppage (R1, 5:00).

Randy Brown Stops Cowboy Oliveira With One-Armed Rear-Naked Choke – UFC 261 Highlights

Randy ‘Rude Boy’ Brown has just turned in a highlight-reel stoppage, and a rarity to boot. As the featured bout of the UFC 261 prelims, Brown managed to lock up an eye-catching one-armed rear-naked choke win over the Brazilian, Alex ‘Cowboy’ Oliveira. Picking up three wins in his last four, the Spanish Town native dropped […]

Picking up three wins in his last four, the Spanish Town native dropped Oliveira with a heavy right hand, with referee, Dan Miragliotta offering the Brazilian a life line and a chance to survive. Giving up his back along the fence corner, Oliveira hand fought with Brown who managed to score one hook, before attempting to choke Oliveira with a single arm.

Locking up a rare one-armed rear-naked choke, Brown eventually pulled Oliveira to the canvas — wrapping up his sixth submission victory from thirteen professional wins.

Below, check out the highlights from Brown’s impressive submission win over Oliveira.

Brendan Allen Submits Karl Roberson With Opening Round Heel Hook – UFC 261 Highlights

It’s now nine successful submission wins for Roufusport grappling standout, Brendan Allen — who scores a late first round heel hook win over Karl Roberson on the preliminary card of UFC 261. Rebounding from a knockout loss to Sean Strickland back at UFC Vegas 14 in November, Allen moves to 4-1 in the UFC with […]

It’s now nine successful submission wins for Roufusport grappling standout, Brendan Allen — who scores a late first round heel hook win over Karl Roberson on the preliminary card of UFC 261.

Rebounding from a knockout loss to Sean Strickland back at UFC Vegas 14 in November, Allen moves to 4-1 in the UFC with the win, with two of his promotional wins now coming via submission.

The Dana White‘s Contender Series alum adds Roberson to prior successes over recent UFC Vegas 22 headliner, Kevin Holland, British standout, Tom Breese, and Kyle Daukaus. The former LFA middleweight best moves to 16-4 as a professional off the back of his win over Sanford MMA trainee, Roberson.

Below, catch the highlights from Allen’s submission success against Roberson.

Danaa Batgerel Stops Kevin Natividad With Huge First Round Swarm – UFC 261 Highlights

Danaa ‘Storm’ Bartegel moves to 2-1 in the UFC — off the back of a massive opening-round knockout win over Kevin Natividad. Headlining the early preliminary portion of the pay-per-view event at the Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, the Mongolian stopped Natividad in just fifty seconds — landing a massive counter left hook, […]

Danaa ‘Storm’ Bartegel moves to 2-1 in the UFC — off the back of a massive opening-round knockout win over Kevin Natividad.

Headlining the early preliminary portion of the pay-per-view event at the Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, the Mongolian stopped Natividad in just fifty seconds — landing a massive counter left hook, before swarming with some notable finishing instincts, forcing referee, Herb Dean to stop the bout.

The win sees Batgerel improve his undefeated run to two fights, following a knockout win over Guido Cannetti at UFC 248 last March at the T-Mobile Arena. In his promotional bow, the Jackson-Wink MMA trainee dropped a unanimous decision loss to Heili Alateng at UFC Fight Night Shenzhen in August of 2019. Sitting at 9-2 professional, tonight’s win marked the fifth occasion Batgerel stopped a fight via strikes.

Below, catch the highlights from Batgerel’s win over Natividad.

UFC 261 Results: Usman vs. Masvidal II

LowKick MMA will be bringing you UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal results throughout the afternoon (Sat. 24th. April 2021) from the Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Taking main event honours as part of a championship tripleheader, welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman meets with BMF titleholder, Jorge Masvidal in a rematch of their UFC 251 main event last […]

LowKick MMA will be bringing you UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal results throughout the afternoon (Sat. 24th. April 2021) from the Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida.

Taking main event honours as part of a championship tripleheader, welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman meets with BMF titleholder, Jorge Masvidal in a rematch of their UFC 251 main event last July on ‘Fight Island’.

Initially meeting last summer on just six day’s notice, Masvidal saw his three-fight winning spree halted by Usman via a largely one-sided unanimous decision loss.

In the time since, Masvidal has yet to compete, while Usman notched his third successful title defence in the form of a third round knockout win over Gilbert Burns in the main event of UFC 258 in February.

In the co-main event slot, strawweight champion, Zhang Weili attempts to score her second successful defence of the 115-pound title, as she matches with former gold holder, Rose Namajunas.

Weili returns for the first time since UFC 248 last March, where she defeated another former titleholder, Joanna Jedrzejczyk via a close split decision, in the consensus Fight of the Year.

For Namajunas, the Denver-based contender returns as the number-one contender off the back of a close split decision win of her own over another former champion, Jessica Andrade at UFC 251 in July, in a rematch win.

In the first of our title tripleheader, Valentina Shevchenko puts her flyweight championship on the line as she meets with the aforenoted former strawweight best, Andrade.

Shevchenko attempts to secure her fifth successful defence of the 125-pound title, having taken home a unanimous decision win over Jennifer Maia in the co-main event of UFC 255 in November.

For Parana native, Andrade, the former strawweight champion would become a two-weight champion with a win over Shevchenko, after earning her shot at gold via a first round knockout win over one-time title challenger, Katlyn Chookagian at UFC Fight Island 6 in October in her divisional bow.

UFC 261 Results: Usman vs. Masvidal II

Main Card: (ESPN+ 10 p.m. ET)

Welterweight: Kamaru Usman (c) vs. Jorge Masvidal II

Strawweight: Zhang Weili (c) vs. Rose Namajunas

Flyweight: Valentina Shevchenko (c) vs. Jessica Andrade

Middleweight: Uriah Hall vs. Chris Weidman II

Light Heavyweight: Anthony Smith vs. Jimmy Crute

Preliminary Card: (ESPN/ESPN+ 8 p.m. ET)

Welterweight: Alex Oliveira vs. Randy Brown

Welterweight: Dwight Grant vs. Stefan Sekulic

Middleweight: Karl Roberson vs. Brendan Allen

Featherweight: Patrick Sabatini vs. Tristian Connelly

Early Preliminary Card: (ESPN2/ESPN+ 6 p.m. ET)

Bantamweight: Danaa Batgerel vs. Kevin Natividad

Lightweight: Kazula Vargas vs. Rong Zhu

Flyweight: Qileng Aori vs. Jeffrey Molina

Strawweight: Na Liang vs. Ariane Carnelossi