Las vegas -In the first round of Toppuria’s title-winner, from knockout to a well-known flyweight title eliminator of Joshua Van, for immediate classic victory at Brandon Royval, even the most confident fantasy books did not expect UFC 317 to distribute it.
The time was imperfect. As part of the International Fight Week – where the UFC was desperate for a march moment – the company executed a card, which could be seen very well for the next five to 10 years of story in the game.
Dana White often states that she is in the business of giving a “oh nonsense” moment. It is difficult to remember an event with more of them on this side of the decade.
Let’s start with Topuriya. The 28-year-old Georgian-Spanish Wondkind established himself as the UFC’s next all-time Great, dropping the legendary Charles Olivera in the first round.
Toppuria insisted in the last few weeks and said that it would end the fight within the first two or three minutes. They finished it after just 2:27, when it began with a Ruthian named Shot, after making a combo landing that immediately sent Olivira to the canvas.
Topapuria was then engaged in a stressful post-fight faceoff with future challenger paddy pimblets, which ended with Topapuria Shoving Mambalat, which was motivated to interfere with security. It all felt a lot of WWE – in the highest sense.
Toppuria said, “(Pimbalt) the fight I want,” said Topuriya. “With Charles, I had a difficult situation because I really like the man. He is really a great person. You can’t hate him. But in the end, this is the competition. I have to do my work and it is that. With paddy, with paddy, I am really going to enjoy killing his ass.”
Then you went to the 23 -year -old van, who accepted Saturday’s bout on a short notice after beating Bruno Gustavo da Silva in UFC 316 on 7 June. The three-round slugfest immediately went into the anals as one of the great flyweight quarrels-and generally the great battle of the great battle.
The van and royal stood and exploded for 15 minutes, no Techdown attempts. Of a joint 779 strikes thrown by two fighters, 774 of them were counted as an important strike attempts. The van dropped the royaval in seconds, not Max Holowway dropped Justin Gethze to UFC 300. However, Roywal made it the last bell.
“In the beginning of the third round, they were already broken into the top 10 for a significant strike,” White said. “I think they finished in three all-time and crushed the record in their weight division. They also broke another record. I am going to pay the money to Royval. He took that fight on a short notice with a 12 ranked man and put that fight in a full war.”
Alexandre Pantoja achieved his fourth consecutive title defense with a major submission victory in the third round on Kai Kara-France, Pantza and Van, which was also engaged in a faceoff. However, the plan was made, and Pantoja showed a healthy amount of respect for his future opponent.
The main card was opened with a recreational match between the growing stars Patan Talbot and Felip Lima. The performance of Talbot marked a turn after disappointing damage to Raoni Barcelos in UFC 311 in January. He is once again considered a championship trajectory, and Saturday’s victory – and reforms were considered to reach there – they were united as a fighter that could eventually increase the condition of the main event.
Prelims Gregory ended with “Robocop”, Rodrigues flattened Jack Hermanson with a devastating knockout, which saw Hormanson several minutes to arrive. In addition to the crushing of Rodrigues, two other quarrels on the prelims ended with a knockout of the first minute, and the second round ended by depositing one minute in the second round.
Saturday’s card proved that an established superstar like Connor McGregor or John Jones was not required to give UFC a classic fight night. Instead, it was rewarded with a superstar moment from Topapuria and the performance of making stars from van and talbot. This may seem hyperbolic, but UFC 317 felt like a valid pole shift from a large -scale seamless era that the UFC was trying hard to pull himself.
