No one on Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card saw Brunno Ferreira’s elbow coming, least of all Dustin Stoltzfus.
The Brazilian middleweight scored the wildest finish of the night in Louisville with a spinning back elbow KO at the end of the first round, answering a tentative left move from Stoltzfus with the full fury of centripetal force.
The punch stunned Stoltzfus so long that referee Jason Herzog stepped in to stop the fight.
According to the ESPN broadcast, it was only the eighth spinning back elbow KO in UFC history.
The win improves Ferreira’s record to 11-1 and puts him back on a winning streak after suffering the first loss of his MMA career against Nursulton Ruziboev last July. He bounced back for the first time with another first-round KO of Phil Hawes in January, and could now be in line for a bonus towards the end of Saturday’s card.
