Shara Magomedov continued his successful methods on Saturday as he sliced and diced his method by Michal Oleksiejczuk to win a unanimous determination within the UFC Abu Dhabi co-main occasion.
Regardless of taking the struggle on brief discover, Magomedov was greater than prepared for all three rounds as he threw his signature kicks blended in with some devastating elbows that consistently stored Oleksiejczuk off stability. By the top of the third spherical, Oleksiejczuk was slumped down on the canvas with a pair of cuts round his eyes after absorbing a ton of punishment after spending quarter-hour within the cage with Magomedov.
The ultimate scores learn 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28 as Magomedov picked up one other massive win within the octagon. Following his victory, Magomedov supplied up a curious callout.
“This is essential for me to struggle right here as a result of it’s like a house crowd for me,” Magomedov mentioned about combating in Abu Dhabi. “That is simply the beginning for me. I’m blissful to win at this time.
“My subsequent struggle I wish to name out Nick Diaz. You’re a striker, I’m a striker. Let’s go Abu Dhabi, October.”
Confidence in his energy allowed Oleksiejczuk to really crack Magomedov with some stinging photographs at the beginning of the struggle as he confirmed no concern within the exchanges with the damaging Russian. In return, Magomedov displayed his devastating array of kicks in addition to an elbow that sliced Oleksiejczuk open with a reduce on his left eye.
Whereas Magomedov stored ending up on his backfoot, he was nonetheless launching quite a lot of strikes at Oleksiejczuk, who was caught reacting and simply working to shut the space to make use of his finest punches. Issues about conditioning have continued to plague Magomedov however combating at a methodical tempo allowed him to only choose and select his photographs towards Oleksiejczuk.
Magomedov’s pace was additionally giving Oleksiejczuk all types of issues as he simply didn’t see so most of the strikes coming at him from numerous angles. A facet kick from Magomedov led to some knees up the center as he actually began pouring on the punishment to Oleksiejczuk.
Late within the struggle, Magomedov uncorked a hellacious head kick that nailed Oleksiejczuk however one way or the other the Polish middleweight absorbed the strike and stored coming. Even a takedown from Oleksiejczuk didn’t assist him a lot with Magomedov slicing him open once more with elbows from the underside because the motion got here to an in depth.
Now 14-0 in his profession with three straight wins within the UFC, Magomedov continues to seem like a future contender as he slowly however certainly reveals enchancment with each struggle.