Yadong
Song’s team planned for an uppercut finish throughout training
camp.

Song firmly put himself in title contention in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship with the biggest victory of his
career, finishing Umar
Nurmagomedov in the second round of the
UFC Shanghai headliner. The Chinese bantamweight’s coaches
identified the route to victory long before fight night.

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Yadong Song explains the preparation behind his UFC Shanghai
knockout of Umar Nurmagomedov

After his knockout victory, Song revealed he had specifically
prepared the uppercut as a counter to Nurmagomedov’s takedown
attempts. “The Kung Fu Kid” claimed that his boxing coach
identified where the Dagestani was vulnerable and they repeatedly
worked on the finishing sequence he pulled off at UFC Shanghai.

Song explained that his team anticipated Nurmagomedov shooting with
his head dipping towards the left side and worked on counters to
that movement.

“My boxing coach, Rudy Hernandez, he already told me, ‘You gonna
get the knockout tonight with uppercut,’” Song said in a post-fight
interview. “We’ve been working on that. We know he gonna shoot from
the left side and we find the uppercut.”

In the same interview, Song claimed that he’d finish current champ
Petr
Yan and former champ Sean
O’Malley in rematches after they previously outpointed him. He
also fancies himself against Merab
Dvalishvili.

“I feel like I can finish everyone,” Song added. “You know, I can,
I can finish Petr. I can finish Merab, you know. So even Sean’s
fight is very close. You know, if a rematch, I can finish him
too.”

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