It’s not every single day you get a heavyweight heel hook, however that’s what followers received Friday at PFL Playoffs 1.
In a heavyweight showcase bout that served because the featured prelim, Sergey Bilostenniy submitted Tyrell Fortune with a gnarly heel hook at 2:00 of Spherical 1.
The ending sequence was an elongated leg lock battle, which Bilostenniy (12-3) ultimately received in damaging vogue. Fortune (14-3) tried his finest to struggle the submission, however ultimately his physique caved to the harm. There was no faucet, however the harm was evident and referee Jason Herzog intervened.
Sergei Bilostenniy locks in a heel hook and Jason Herzog calls the struggle when Fortune was in ache!
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Bilostenniy, 28, will get his revenge on Fortune, who defeated him by disqualification, as a result of strikes to the again of the top, in April 2023. The win was his third in a row.
Fortune, 34, provides an official loss to his report for the primary time since 2021 (although he misplaced a struggle to Daniel James in 2022 that was later overturned to a no contest).
The up-to-the-minute 2024 PFL Playoffs 1 outcomes embody:
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