Manuel Torres delivered the largest win of his profession with a jaw-dropping knockout of Drew Dober within the UFC Mexico co-main occasion.
It was a superbly timed end with Torres organising his straight punches as quickly because the combat began and that’s precisely how he ultimately put Dober away. With a peak and attain benefit, Torres uncorked a left hand after which adopted with the straight proper that blasted Dober within the jaw and despatched him crashing to the canvas.
Torres adopted up with a blistering collection of hammer fists to the aspect of the pinnacle and Torres ultimately went limp with referee Mike Beltran mercifully stopping the combat at 1:45 within the first spherical.
Simply after the combat was over, Dober truly jumped to his toes and tried to proceed, which was solely additional proof he was truly knocked out and didn’t even understand it. It was a formidable displaying from Torres, who strikes to 4-1 within the UFC with this newest win.
“I do that all for you,” Torres shouted to the gang. “I wouldn’t have the ability to do that with out all of you. It was fast. Hey Dana [White], you realize the place it’s at.”
Initially of the combat, Dober appeared prepared to indicate off a bit extra persistence than his typical aggressive fashion as he tried to discover a means inside Torres’ lengthy punches. Sadly for him, that technique didn’t repay as a result of Torres stabbed him with a type of lengthy, rangy punches in the course of the very first trade.
Dober proceed to remain in pursuit to hopefully negate that distance, however Torres was pinpoint correct and lethal together with his punches. That’s when he unleashed the left-right mixture that put Dober down on the bottom and he by no means acquired up once more till the combat was over.
As quickly as Dober dropped he tried to seize onto an anklem however Torres was relentless with the hammer fists in succession till the combat was stopped.
The victory places Torres again on observe after falling to Ignacio Bahamondes in his earlier outing and he stays a critical risk to anybody able to throw down with him within the UFC light-weight division.
