BKFC Manchester featured a completely brutal knockout.
In a 200-pound matchup on Saturday’s card, Conor Cooke obliterated opponent Stevie Taylor within the first spherical. After a quick pause within the motion, the referee re-started issues with lower than 30 seconds left in Spherical 1, the place Cooke delivered a nasty proper hand on the button of Taylor — which led to Taylor falling to the mat like a tree within the wilderness, and the tip of the struggle.
Take a look at the vicious one-punch knockout end within the video beneath.
Cooke seems to have discovered a house on the earth of bare-knuckle boxing as he improves his BKFC document to 5-1 total, together with 4 knockouts. Cooke had an up-and-down MMA run, profitable simply six of 13 professional blended martial arts bouts between 2010 and 2015, together with stoppage losses in 4 of his previous 5 outings.
Taylor competed within the BKFC ring for the second time after getting a fourth-round end in his BKFC Prospect Sequence bout this previous June.