Daniel Donchenko is the first welterweight to advance to the semifinals on “The Ultimate Fighter 33.”
The Team Cormier representative took a hard-fought decison victory over Team Sonnen’s Richard Martins in a 170-pound quarterfinal pairing on Episode 2, as he relied on a more consistent offensive attack to get the nod from the judges in the two-round affair.
The 23-year-old Ukraine native had his most memorable moment in the opening stanza, when he rattled Martins with a right hand within the first 30 seconds and swarmed with offense against the fence.