Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar had his quest for the bantamweight belt sidetracked when Cory Sandhagen knocked him out at UFC Vegas 18 last week.
Sandhagen blasted Edgar with a flying knee 28 seconds into their fight. He laid the former champion out cold.
Edgar awoke from the shot, stood for the official result, and walked out of the Octagon. But he didn’t remember any of it.
In a recent interview with ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, Edgar said that he didn’t really start coming around until he was in the back dressing room area of The Apex. Even then, however, he didn’t know what had happend.
UFC Fight Night 184 provided us with two female bouts. Karol Rosa defeated Joselyne Edwards in one of the contests, while Lara Procópio topped Molly McCann in the other fight.
I want to do my best to really give you something of substance to read here, but the story of each fight was really simple. Let’s take a look at them.
Karol Rosa vs. Joselyne Edwards
I went into this bout with hopes of a slugfest. I wanted to see Rosa’s technique against Edwards’ aggression. However, the smart play for Rosa was going to be to use her ground game.
Alexander Volkov makes statement with knockout of Alistair Overeem
Overeem started in a crouch in the UFC Vegas 18 main event, giving Volkov less of a target. The two danced around for the opening couple of minutes before Overeem cracked Volkov with two hard overhand left punches.
Volkov was pressing forward earlier in the round, but a third overhand from Overeem slowed his momentum.
Three minutes into the first round and Overeem had edged ahead, landing an uppercut and a body kick before Volkov abruptly knocked him to the canvas. Overeem covered to weather a few shots from Volkov, but the exchange ignited the Russian.