LAS VEGAS-- Fighting Giga Chikadze has to resemble battling an octopus equipped with a number of nightsticks and a baseball bat or two.
The UFC featherweight is a speedy of activity, utilizing every arm or leg to create pain as well as develop damages on his challenger. His round with Edson Barboza on Saturday generally occasion of UFC Las vega 35 was low-key one of the very best bouts of the year on paper, and it supplied in a significant method.
While doing so, it may have developed a brand-new star.
Chikadze bewildered Barboza, who was the minor fave at BetMGM, in a fight of two of the UFC's leading competitors, quiting him with his hands at 1:44 of the third after bludgeoning Barboza right component of two-plus rounds.
"I'm just geeking out over that," UFC head of state Dana White claimed as he made his means to the dais for the post-fight news conference.
White could not resist having a going at his newly developed competitor, Jake Paul, that boxes ex-UFC champ Tyron Woodley on a pay-per-view in Cleveland on Saturday.
During the center of the fight, White left his cageside seat as well as came close to press reporters to chastise those that went to Cleveland rather. At the press conference, he unloaded once again, incapable to fathom those who really did not see Chikadze-Barboza as the terrific match it became.
"If you are a MMA press reporter or blog owner or whatever, you are bats *** nuts if you remained in Cleveland and weren't right here to see this," White stated.
Chikadze was quicker and more exact than Barboza, who has actually been a stalwart in the UFC's light-weight and featherweight divisions over the last years and also has left more competitors hopping after bouts than nearly anybody.
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