Landing his first victory via stoppage since a 2020 TKO win over recent winner, Brendan Allen, number seven ranked middleweight contender, Sean Strickland has turned in his second straight win, stopping German upstart, Abusupiyan Magomedov with a second round slew of strikes in a rallying knockout win in the main event of UFC Vegas 76.
Strickland, who most recently turned in a dominant unanimous decision win over Russian prospect, Nassourdine Imavov in a January headliner, managed to rally from some adversity in the opening round of his third consecutive headliner against Magomedov — forced to deal with a nasty eye poke inside just 25 seconds.