With the Spanish bullfighter Topglia knocking out Alexander Volkanovsky in the second round with a heavy punch at three points and 32 seconds, the explosive UFC298 lineup came to an end at the Honda Center Arena in Anaheim.
The dynasty changes, and a new king of Topulia arrives
First of all, the Spanish bullfighter Topglia defeated the legendary king Volkanovski to become the fifth featherweight champion in UFC history, in fact, before the official start of UFC298, even until the end of the first round, he was still more optimistic that the great Volkanovsky would continue to defend the featherweight championship belt, but everything came too suddenly!
You must know that in the time from 2016 to 2022, the Great Volkanovsky has won an astonishing twelve consecutive victories, although Volkanovsky has only achieved one win and two losses after entering 2023, but two of these defeats are the Emperor to challenge the current UFC lightweight champion Makhachev, so these two defeats do not mean that the Emperor is already the end of the strong crossbow, and the Emperor is still the Emperor who blocks and kills the gods and Buddhas!
However, for the new king Topria, the history is so similar, the same 15 consecutive wins, the same UFC record of seven consecutive wins, and the same UFC featherweight championship at the age of 27, so that many fans and professional fighters hailed the new king as the next mouth cannon Connor!
Merab finished the triple crown winner Henri Cejudo in three rounds
Triple crown champion Henry Cehudo, a two-division UFC belt holder, a wrestling gold medalist at the Beijing Olympics, and a combination of many halos, was not favored by the majority of fans before the fight, but who would have thought that the former king would become a prop for supernova Merab's performance?
In the post-fight interview, Melabh said that he knew that the guillotine was enough to submit Cehudo, but he didn't do that, because he wanted to buy more performance time so that the world could recognize his strength, and Melabh did it, the Georgian perpetual motion machine picked up the triple crown champion Cehudo high, showed the battlefield more intuitively in front of Zuckerberg around the iron cage, and won the match with a very dominant performance!
And the performance of this battle did benefit Merab a lot, so much so that Logan announced during the interview with Merab that he was the next challenger after Marlon Vera!
Irish rising star Ian Gary narrowly beat Jeff Neal
For this match, I believe many fans will scoff at Ian Gary's performance, throughout the game, Ian Gary's desire to attack is extremely low, and the control of the fighter plane does not seem to be as strong as imagined, so that many professional martial arts ** began to question whether this supernova, who is also from Ireland as UFC superstar Connor, is really capable of becoming the next Mouth Cannon Connor!
Maybe Ian Gary's fighting ability in the iron cage has yet to be tested, but for now, his desire to perform off the field and his career planning are still very good, and the UFC management intends to support this newcomer, so from this level, Ian Gary's future is promising!
The Downhill Tigers made a perfect debut
Although we witnessed the fall of the two kings in this UFC298, we also witnessed the rise of many new generation forces, and the performance of Zhang Mingyang, a large-level rising star from China, amazed all the spectators present.
After the game, Zhang Mingyang said in an interview that this game is just the beginning, and he will be more proactive in stimulating his potential in the next time, and then realize his bold words against Pereira as soon as possible!
Finally, the following are the results of the UFC298 main event
Ilya Topulia knocked out Alexander Volkanovsky in round 2 at 3:32
Robert Whitaker defeated Paul Costa by unanimous decision
Ian Machado Gary defeated Jeff Neal by split decision
Merab Devalishvili defeated Henri Sejudo by unanimous decision
Anthony Hernandez submitted Roman Kopilov by rear-naked choke at 3:23 of round 2