Islam Makhachev wins lightweight title at UFC 280 with a second-round submission of Charles Oliveira | News News

Islam Makhachev capped his ascent to the light-weight throne with a win by arm triangle choke towards Brazilian Charles Oliveira; TJ Dillashaw suffered a dislocated shoulder towards Aljamain Sterling and continued till referee Mark Goddard known as a halt

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Islam Makhachev provides his response after beating Charles Oliveira at UFC 280

Islam Makhachev pulled off a submission win over Charles Oliveira to win the light-weight title and Aljamain Sterling beat TJ Dillashaw by TKO to assert the bantamweight belt at UFC 280 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

Makhachev capped his ascent to the light-weight throne with a win by arm triangle choke towards Brazilian Oliveira, the holder of the UFC file for submission wins with 16.

Oliveira was stripped of the light-weight belt in Could when he missed the burden for his title conflict with Justin Gaethje and although he beat the American the title remained vacant, establishing the showdown with Russian Makhachev.

After spending a lot of the primary spherical defending and attempting to threaten with submissions off his again, Oliveira tried to maintain the combat on the ft within the second spherical.

That tactic regarded prefer it was paying off till he was decked by a punch from Makhachev, who wasted no time leaping on his opponent, locking within the choke and forcing the faucet for Oliveira.

Makhachev devoted the win to his late coach Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, who died in 2020, saying: “A few years in the past he informed me simply practice laborious and I will likely be champion”,

He then handed the belt to Khabib Nurmagomedov, who took over from his father because the Russian’s coach and is himself a former UFC light-weight champion.

Makhachev’s eleventh submission win strikes the 31-year-old to a file of 23 wins and one loss as a professional.

Within the co-main occasion TJ Dillashaw, who had to surrender the belt and serve a two-year suspension after testing optimistic for EPO in 2019, suffered a dislocated shoulder early within the first spherical however one way or the other made it by means of the primary body.

Reigning champion Aljamain Sterling didn’t let up and Dillashaw’s shoulder popped out once more within the second spherical, permitting the 33-year-old Jamaican-American to take him down and dominate him till referee Mark Goddard known as a halt.

“I in all probability popped it out about 20 occasions in coaching camp… I informed the ref within the again that my shoulder might be going to come out, we’ll put it again so if it does do not cease [the fight],” American Dillashaw mentioned in his post-fight interview.

In the principle card’s different large combat, American Sean O’Malley gained an in depth break up choice over Russian Petr Yan after a three-round brawl to place himself in pole place for a shot on the bantamweight title.