A year and a half later, Kennedy Nzechukwu started slowly, but he eventually warmed up in the second round before pairing with a cruel right hook that rounded Carlos Ulberg to the UFC 259 preliminary round.
As a teammate and training partner for UFC middleweight king Israel Adesanya, Ulberg started the fight with a lot of hype behind him, and he certainly looked like part of a future rival during the first exchange in the opening round.
Ulberg battered Nzechukwu with a relentless series of blows, targeting both the head and body and even coupling with a large header. But Nzechukwu refused to go away, and when he took up the penalty, he also watched Ulberg push himself out after using so much energy for the end.
This led to a victim in the second round, and Nzechukwu made Ulberg pay for his lack of defense after throwing a barrage of shots through a devastating right hook that put the City Kickboxing light heavyweight in a heap on the canvas. has. Nzechukwu followed with a few more shots as the referee chased down the fight with the finish at 3:19 in the second round.
“It feels great,” Nzechukwu said after achieving his first victory since 2019. ‘I was just trying to get my head in it. I need that ring time. I just had to increase the pace as my coach said. I just knew I had to push it more. It was a perfect stop. He is a difficult child. ‘
Nzechukwu, who fell short in his quarterback debut, has now scored consecutive wins, but nothing bigger than his victory on Saturday night, while a highly regarded prospect like Ulberg, who Adesanya previously predicted, a champion in the UFC one day .