Carlos Ulberg

It didn't take long for Carlos Ulberg to impress with teammates Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovski sitting cageside, as he quickly finished Tafon ...

Ulberg dropped his UFC debut to Kennedy Nzechukwu at UFC 259. Carlos Ulberg powers through Tafon Nchukwi at UFC Vegas 57 Carlos Ulberg seemed to barely break a sweat in his featured prelim bout at UFC Vegas 57, not even needing 90 seconds to finish off Tafon Nchukwi.

The 31-year-old needed just 75 seconds to earn his second UFC win, claiming a first-round knockout against Cameroon's Tafon Nchukwi. Advertisement. Advertise ...

Ulberg gave Nchukwi no time to recover, hammering him with a four-punch flurry to get the finish. "I've got a really good team behind me so it's a matter of time and I'll get there, for sure." The win sees Ulberg move to 7-1 in his MMA career, and 2-1 in the UFC with a good bounce back in 2022 after dropping his debut.

Carlos Ulberg made quick work of Tafon Nchukwi to close out the prelims of UFC on ESPN 38 in Las Vegas.

JP Buys via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 1:08 Raulian Paiva via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) Cody Durden def. T.J. Brown via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) Sergey Morozov def.

With a cast of decorated City Kickboxing teammates in attendance, Carlos Ulberg put on a show.

Durden brought the fight to Buys (9-5, 0-3 UFC) immediately, rocking his foe with a right hand that prompted a desperation shot. Bautista (10-2, 4-2 UFC) was visibly quicker than Kelleher (24-14, 8-7) in standup exchanges, but he wasted little time changing levels for a takedown in the opening stanza. Durden brought the show to a close with a barrage of punches and hammerfists on his turtled opponent 68 seconds into Round 1. Durden (13-4-1, 2-2-1 UFC) has finished nine of his career triumphs inside of a round. Ulberg (5-1, 2-1 UFC) waited patiently for his opening, circling on the outside before staggering his foe with a sneaky, short left hook. The tone of the bout changed drastically early in Round 2, when Morozov executed a beautifully-timed level change to plant Paiva on his back in the center of the cage.

City Kickboxing's Carlos Ulberg made short work of Tafon Nchukwi in the featured preliminary card fight at UFC Vegas 57 on Saturday night.

After stumbling out of the gate, Carlos Ulberg improves to 2-1 inside the octagon, with a modest two-fight win streak in place. A blitzkrieg of lefts and rights eventually saw Nchukwi fall face-forward to the canvass, and that was all she wrote. Starting things off at a measured pace, Ulberg and Nchukwi traded low kicks early in the opening round.

Rising MMA star Carlos Ulberg beat Tafon Nchukwi in style on Saturday. · Ulberg clattered Nchukwi with a decisive lead left hook to score a one-shot knockout.

On whether he'd been rehearsing the strike that was the beginning of the end for Nchukwi, Ulberg said: "Definitely," before adding: "I've seen his game," as if he knew the perfect time of when to throw it. Ulberg then changed gears and threw a flurry of shots at his opponent as he sought to close the show there and then. "I'm new to the sport of MMA but I work and I work fast," Ulberg said in an understated post-fight victory speech.

The City Kickboxing product needed just 75 seconds to dispatch Tafon Nchukwi in a flawless performance.

Kiwi UFC fighter Carlos Ulberg has scored a commanding knockout win at UFC Vegas 57. The 31-year-old light heavyweight fighter needed a mere 75 seconds to ...

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Carlos Ulberg made quick work of Tafon Nchukwi to close out the prelims of UFC on ESPN 38 in Las Vegas.

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