Sergei
Pavlovich is back to being a feared knockout artist. 

Pavlovich took on Tallison
Teixeira in a heavyweight matchup at
UFC Macau on Saturday. Pavlovich took 39 seconds to shut the
lights on Teixeira with a vicious combination. This was Pavlovich’s
first stoppage win since 2023. The Russian knockout artist admits
that he was trying to put on a technical display in his last few
outings, which didn’t work out very well. 

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“Really great feeling,” Pavlovich said in a post-fight interview
with the UFC. “Couple of fights back it was all about being
technical, about trying to show some skills, but we weren’t able to
do that. Now finally everything worked out and I’m really happy
about it.” 

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Pavlovich and his team studied a lot of tape on Teixeira, who
stands four inches taller than him.   “This is the second opponent I had that’s almost 2 meters in
height, over 6 [feet] something,” Pavlovich said. “We looked at all
of his fights, we did a lot of work, we really prepared, we
dissected him and everything worked out.”

After suffering his first professional loss against Alistair
Overeem in his UFC debut in 2018, Pavlovich (21-3) went on a
six-fight first-round knockout streak. Pavlovich then found himself
in a short-notice interim heavyweight title fight against Tom
Aspinall, who knocked him out.

The Russian contender then changed his approach, introducing more
caution and technique. This led to a lackluster decision loss
against Alexander
Volkov, followed by lukewarm wins over Jairzinho
Rozenstruik and Waldo
Cortes-Acosta. However, Pavlovich looked like his old self for
the first time in years while beating down Teixeira at UFC
Macau. 

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