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The Octagon returned to Nevada for tonight’s UFC Vegas 25 event, an eleven-bout fight card headlined by Dominick Reyes vs. Jiri Prochazka.
The highly anticipated light heavyweight main event proved to be a thrilling back and forth affair. Jiri Prochazka was seemingly getting the better of the standup in round one, but ‘The Devastator’ still managed to get off some hard shots of his own. Then, in the second round, the Czech fighter had Reyes backing up and proceeded to landing a brutal spinning elbow that put the American down for good (see that here).
In the co-main event of UFC Vegas 25, featherweight fighters Cub Swanson and Gigi Chikadze squared off in hopes of moving up the promotional ranks. The fight resulted in a first round finish, as the Georgian put ‘Killer Cub’ away with a nasty liver kick just after the sixty-second mark of the opening round.