Otro KO histórico!!!!! Cómo ver viral?
@Cors_Life
lo sabe!
#UFCFightIsland5 pic.twitter.com/SUy0aZMvEl— ufcespanol (@UFCEspanol)
October 11, 2020
Marlon
Moraes thought things were going fairly well early on his UFC
Fight Night 179 main event showdown with Cory
Sandhagen.
That, of course, was before Sandhagen leveled him with a spinning
wheel kick early in Round 2. The blow sent Moraes into a backward
somersault, and a barrage of follow-up punches from Sandhagen
prompted referee Marc Goddard
to wave off the bantamweight bout 63 seconds into the period.
Sandhagen landed about four unanswered punches before the stoppage,
but Moraes believes he could have been granted a little more time
to recover.
“I thought we had a very good first round. But I thought I won the
round,” Moraes said during the post-fight show on ESPN+. “And then
he started the second and I don’t know, I think he kind of catch me
with a kick and bloodied my eye a little bit and right after he
surprised me. He didn’t come this way, he came the other way and
that’s it.
“Probably a little early stoppage but whatever. I thought I was [OK
to continue] but the ref just jumped on me. I didn’t have time
enough to get up.”
That said, the former World Series of Fighting champion wasn’t
making any excuses in defeat. As a man with several flashy KO
victories on his ledger, Moraes knows the nature of the sport.
“I just got caught,” Moraes said. “He catch me. I was doing good
the first round, it was a good fight. I was very excited for this
fight. I knew we were going to do the ‘Fight of the Night’ for
sure. But unfortunately, I got caught. I caught a lot of guys
before but that was my day.”