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Ismael Bonfim won’t overlook his UFC debut. Bonfim outgunned ferocious striker Terrance McKinney, placing his lights out with a flying knee knockout at UFC 283 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday.
Bonfim carried out effectively within the first spherical of his UFC debut in opposition to McKinney, however he actually cranked up the violence in Round 2. McKinney was desperately flailing to land pictures as Bonfim hit him cleaner and cleaner. Bonfim backed his foe to the fence and uncorked a punch that knocked out McKinney’s mouthpiece. He measured McKinney and launched ahead with a flying knee that instantly folded McKinney. No follow-up pictures have been crucial.
Bonfim improved to 19-3 professionally and prolonged his energetic profitable streak to 13. A light-weight prospect value maintaining a tally of, two of Bonfim’s early profession losses got here in opposition to future UFC fighters Renato Moicano and Adriano Moraes. Ismael Bonfim’s youthful brother, Gabriel Bonfim, is scheduled to struggle on the UFC 283 prelims in opposition to Mounir Lazzez.
McKinney (13-5) entered the struggle having gone 3-1 in his UFC debut yr in 2022. The Bonfim struggle marks the primary time that McKinney had ever seen Round 2 contained in the Octagon.
