Top 15-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight contenders Derrick “Black Beast” Lewis (No. 10) and Shamil Abdurakhimov (No. 15) collided in the main event of UFC Fight Night 102, which took place inside Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y., tonight (Fri., Dec. 9, 2016), airing exclusively on UFC Fight Pass.
It marked the first UFC main event for either big man. But, in the end, it marked the seventh (technical) knockout win inside the Octagon for Lewis, who took out Abdurakhimov via brutal ground-and-pound in the fourth round.
In the first round, Lewis took the center of the cage, with Abdurakhimov circling the outside.