Joshua Van inched his manner additional up the flyweight rankings with a dominant efficiency towards Bruno Silva within the UFC 316 featured prelim on Saturday evening.
Silva regarded stable within the early going, lighting up Van’s lead leg with some nasty kicks. Nevertheless, it was clear that Van’s boxing was far superior to Silva’s. That grew to become very obvious simply previous the midway level of the second stanza when Van unleashed a mix that despatched Silva crashing to the canvas.
It was simply one among three knockdowns for Van, who tied the flyweight document for probably the most knockdowns in a single combat.
Silva survived for so long as he might, however he lastly went down for the rely with a minute to go within the third after consuming a nasty proper hand from Van. At that time, referee Vitor Ribeiro had lastly seen sufficient, bringing a cease to the bout.
Official Outcome: Joshua Van def. Bruno Silva by way of TKO (proper cross to ground-and-pound) at 4:01 of Spherical 3.