After the final half-year proved to be one to neglect for him, Magomed Umalatov is again in an enormous means, scoring a first-round knockout of Anthony Ivy throughout the early card of the PFL World Match semifinals occasion in Nashville, Tennessee.
Umalatov stuffed an early takedown try from Ivy and appeared to do harm with a knee to the physique. He then acquired the higher of Ivy on the bottom, exhibiting off efficient strain and ground-and-pound.
Ivy made his means again to his toes, however as he tried to push ahead, Umalatov cracked him with a fast left hand. One other one from Umalatov instantly after then despatched him crashing to the mat face-first, as Umalatov instantly celebrated earlier than the referee formally stepped in to wave off the bout.
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Umalatov completed because the runner-up within the 2024 PFL welterweight match, falling brief in opposition to fellow countryman Shamil Musaev. It was the primary lack of Umalatov’s MMA profession, and he fell simply brief once more of a PFL title.
Umalatov then was scheduled to compete within the welterweight portion of the PFL World Match this 12 months earlier than lacking weight and medical points pressured him off his initially scheduled bout with Logan Storley in April.
Ivy, who missed weight for this bout, was using a seven-fight win streak, coming into this bout off a submission of Jaleel Willis in a showcase bout throughout final 12 months’s PFL Playoffs.
