A priori, the UFC Fight Night event in Macau was a transitional evening, with a powerful main event between two former champions, Petr Yan and Deivison Figueiredo. But the UFC is always a box of surprises and it probably became the best unnumbered event of the season so far, with some performances that will remain engraved in the imagination of fans forever.
Specifically, there were five knockouts that left viewers speechless. But there was one that, due to its spectacularity, stood out from the rest, and the others were also incredible. We talk about the performance of Muslim Salikhov, the 40-year-old Russian fighter who executed one of the most precise, technical and powerful movements in memorywhen he hit Song Kenan in the face with a spinning kick, leaving him knocked out on the canvas.
It was the end of the first round, when the fighter of Dagestani origin saw the exact moment to launch the spinning kick with a perfect technical execution, impacting his heel squarely on his opponent. Known as the ‘King of Kung Fu’, Salikhov managed to put the entire world of mixed martial arts on its feet by adding his second victory by this method, as he already won in 2022 with a spinning kick against Andre Fialho in the UFC.
In fact, the difficulty of obtaining a victory in this way, that of the KO by means of a spinning kick, is such that there are only 15 victories recorded in this way in the history of the UFC, 2 of them by the Russian fighter. With this victory, Salikhov establishes a positive record of 8-4 within the UFC and, despite his age, sees a hopeful horizon to face some big name in the welterweight division.
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