UFC 292 results: Sean O’Malley knockouts Aljamain Sterling, video, news, highlights

Sean O’Malley is on prime of the world after delivering a knockout efficiency in his first title struggle look.

With the Boston crowd behind him the bantamweight challenger despatched the previous champ Aljamain Sterling sprawling on the canvas with one monster punch.

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As Sterling lunged in making an attempt to drive the tempo, O’Malley lent again to keep away from the punch as he cocked his proper hand and despatched it straight down the barrel onto the chin of Sterling.

He jumped on his rival and rained hellfire earlier than the referee jumped in to cease the struggle

The title struggle thriller got here after strawweight champ Zhang Weili dominanted Amanda Lemos to retain her title.

3pm – ‘Holy sh*t’: O’Malley stuns the world

Suga Sean O’Malley has pulled off the beautiful upset with one hellacious proper hand doing the job towards the champ.

Aljamain Sterling misplaced his cool as he seemed to pounce after beautiful his rival early within the second, however O’Malley stored his composure and launched a nuclear proper straight down the barrel that despatched Sterling falling face first onto the canvas.

R1: The Boston crowd is firmly behind Sean O’Malley as chants of “F*** you Aljo” rang out in the course of the opening minutes. The 2 fighters spent the majority of the opening spherical feeling one another out as they danced across the centre of the Octagon. The occassion hasn’t obtained to O’Malley like many thought it might. Neither fighter actually did something within the opener till the champ rushed in late. Sterling 10-9.

R2: Sterling obtained the leap on his rival however within the blink of an eye fixed O’Malley shocked the champ with a hellacious counter proper hand. Sterling fell backwards to the canvas and O’Malley pounced earlier than the referee jumped in to wave it off and crown the brand new bantamweight king.

2.30pm – Champ makes historical past in dominant outing

Strawweight champ Zhang Weili has made historical past in a dominant defence of her crown at UFC 292 on Sunday.

Problem Amanda Lemos discovered herself drowning within the deep waters of a championship struggle as Weili had her approach along with her rival.

From the opening moments of the struggle till the ultimate bell it was one-sided dominant with Weili making historical past by recording the most important hanging differential in a ladies’s UFC struggle.

She outlanded her opponent with an absurd 288 strikes in comparison with solely 21. She recorded simply shy of quarter-hour of floor management, Lemos had zero.

R1: Zhang Weili asserted her championship dominance over challenger Amanda Lemos within the opening spherical of their struggle.

Weili took management early earlier than Lemos pounced and seemed to have deep choke locked in just for the champ to flee and take management of her again. 10-9 Zhang

R2: Lemos obtained the higher of the motion early as the 2 stayed on their toes, touchdown a number of exhausting proper arms. Weili finally obtained her arms on her rival and threw her to the canvas and started dominating on the bottom. Lemos managed to get again to her toes however solely seconds later she was dumped again on the canvas. 20-18 Zhang.

R3: A lot of the identical because the opening two rounds, Lemos trying higher on the toes however the struggle has spent the bulk on the canvas with the champ completely dominanting the challenger.

Lemos was given no freedom to supply something as Weili asserted her dominance on the struggle. 30-27 Zhang.

R4: For 3 minutes Amanda Lemos was controlling the spherical as the 2 fighters stood in the midst of the octagon. Lemos landed the heavy photographs however Weili responded by delivering one other excellent takedown. 39-38 Zhang.

R5: She dominated your complete struggle on the canvas nevertheless it was a monster proper hand that landed on the button for Weili. The shot got here out of nowhere and shocked Lemos as she fell to the mat because the champ leapt into motion as she seemed to complete the struggle.

Extremely Lemos survived the onslaught and obtained again to her toes, however Weili ragdolled her straight again down. 49-47 Zhang.

1.45pm – Irishman makes American look silly

Ian Garry’s climb up the welterweight standings continued in Boston after he dominated eleventh ranked American Neil Magny.

Garry despatched Magny to the canvas within the early levels of the struggle with an on level leg kick earlier than doing the very same later within the opening spherical.

The assault on Magny’s entrance leg continued as Garry’s proper foot discovered it’s house each time he launched it.

Magny’s face writhed in agony after every kick as he did his finest to cover his left leg from the onslaught.

The pair exchanged phrases on the finish of the second spherical earlier than Garry flipped his rival the hen.

Garry continued the leg assault within the third and remaining spherical with Magny not capable of put any weight on his left leg as the ultimate buzzer sounded.

After the ultimate buzzer Garry rubbed the pinnacle of his rival earlier than fliping him off as soon as once more. The judges confirmed simply how dominant his show was as two scored it 30-26 whereas the third had it 30-24.

12.30pm – UFC icon fumes over unlawful blows

Daniel Cormier couldn’t consider his eyes when a struggle on the UFC 292 undercard ended after a nasty knockout.

Gregory Rodrigues brutally knocked out Denis Tiuliulin within the opening spherical, however replays appeared to point out one shot landed on the again of Tiuliulin’s head.

Rodrigues rained down hellacious elbows earlier than the referee jumped in to carry the competition to an finish.

However Cormier shortly misplaced his composure after the struggle because the replays started to roll.

“That one seemed behind the pinnacle,” Cormier stated on commentary.

“From that angle, that seemed somewhat behind the pinnacle.

“Uh, yeah Jon (Anik), that’s an unlawful strike.

The previous UFC champ stated Tiuliulin can be properly inside his rights to protest the consequence.

“The fact is, it seemed unlawful,” Cormier stated.

“From that angle, it was an unlawful shot that began the end.

“If I’m Dennis Tiuliulin and I’m going 1-3 in my UFC profession, I’m protesting. It would save my job.”

12pm – O’Malley stuns UFC with wild weight acquire

Each O’Malley and Sterling weighed in on the bantamweight restrict of 135lbs, however within the hours after they each packed on the kilos.

Sterling posted an replace the place he confirmed off his climbing weight forward of his title defence, “144.4 and climbing” the champ wrote.

But it surely was O’Malley’s replace that caught the attention of struggle followers.

In a video posted to his private Twitter account, O’Malley stepped onto the scales because the digicam zoomed in on the burden which confirmed a staggering 157.4lbs.

The wild acquire was shortly revealed because the digicam panned out displaying the bantamweight star holding a case of Completely satisfied Dad, an American seltzer.

One fan nonetheless shortly ran the numbers and labored out simply how a lot O’Malley weighed with a staggering revelation.

“O’Malley weighed 157.4lbs whereas holding a 12 pack of completely happy dad. 157.4 – 9lbs (144fl oz) = 148.4lbs. So he went from 135lbs to 148.4lbs in only a few hours,” the fan wrote.

MAIN CARD (12pm AEST)

Sean O’Malley def Aljamain Sterling through KO in spherical 2

Zhang Weili (c) def Amanda Lemos through UD (50-43, 50-44, 50-45)

Ian Machado Garry v Neil Magny (30-26 x2, 30-24)

Mario Bautista def Da’Mon Blackshear through UD (30-27, 29-28 x2)

Marlon Vera def Pedro Munhoz through UD (30-27 x2, 29-28)

PRELIMS (10am AEST)

Brad Tavares def Chris Weidman through UD

Gregory Rodrigues def Denis Tiuliulin through KO in spherical 1

Kurt Holobaugh def Austin Hubbard through submission in Spherical 2

Brad Katona def Cody Gibson through UD (29-28 x 2, 30-27)

EARLY PRELIMS