Daniel Cormier has his first finalist on The Final Fighter 33.
This week’s episode kicked off the flyweight semifinals and it was Workforce Cormier’s Alibi Idris (Kazakhstan) who continued to impress as he put away Workforce Chael Sonnen’s Roybert Echeverria (Venezuela) within the first spherical.
Idris introduced fixed stress to the pivotal contest, throwing large punches proper out of the gate. Cormier really needed to inform Idris to decelerate, however in the long run Idris’ aggression paid off. After stuffing an Echeverria takedown try, Idris turned the tables by strolling him down after which scoring a takedown of his personal.
Echeverria fought arduous to get out from beneath Idris, however left himself susceptible as he tried to face. Idris threw out a lightning-fast flying knee that rocked Echeverria, permitting Idris to comply with up with strikes for a technical knockout.
Idris is now the primary TUF 33 fighter to advance to this season’s finale. He awaits both teammate Imanol Rodriguez (Mexico) or Workforce Sonnen’s Joseph Morales (USA), who compete within the different flyweight semifinal.
Subsequent week’s episode sees two Workforce Cormier fighters compete within the first welterweight semifinal as Jeff Creighton (USA) fights Rodrigo Sezinando (Brazil).
The struggle consequence was simply Cormier including insult to harm as he additionally defeated Sonnen on this season’s Coaches’ Problem. Cormier and Sonnen confronted off in a greatest two-out-of-three match of pickleball, which turned out to be a one-sided contest.
Sonnen provided little resistance as Cormier ran up the rating, solely managing factors himself when Cormier repeatedly foot faulted. Regardless of Cormier getting heated with the officers, he in management for almost all of the competition and simply received two video games to defeat Sonnen and earn a $10,000 prize for himself and $2,500 for every of his staff members.
The Final Fighter 33 airs dwell each Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
Not like most editions of TUF, coaches Daniel Cormier and Chael Sonnen is not going to struggle on the conclusion of the season, as each are lengthy retired.
The finalists of the TUF 33 welterweight and flyweight tournaments will compete for a six-figure UFC contract within the present’s dwell finale fights. A date for these bouts is but to be introduced.
Listed here are the TUF 33 rosters divided by staff:
Workforce Cormier
Flyweights
- Eduardo Henrique (13-2), Brazil
- Alibi Idiris (10-0), Kazakhstan
- Imanol Rodriguez (5-0), Mexico
- Tumelo Manyamala (6-1), South Africa
Welterweights
- Rodrigo Sezinando (8-1), Brazil
- Daniil Donchenko (11-2), Ukraine
- Jeff Creighton (11-2-1), USA
- Alex Sanchez (15-3), Mexico
Workforce Sonnen
Flyweights
- Joseph Morales (12-2), USA
- Furkatbek Yokubov (13-4), Uzbekistan
- Roybert Echeverria (10-2), Venezuela
- Arshiyan Memon (7-0), India
Welterweights
- Diego Bianchini (9-1), Brazil
- Matt Dixon (11-1), USA
- Richard Martins (9-1), Brazil
- Andreeas Binder (10-1, 1 NC), Eire
Listed here are the semifinal outcomes and matchups:
Flyweight
Alibi Idris def. Roybert Echeverria by way of first-round TKO (strikes)
Imanol Rodriguez vs. Joseph Morales
Welterweight
Daniil Donchenko vs. Matt Dixon
Jeff Creighton vs. Rodrigo Sezinando
Listed here are the quarterfinal outcomes:
Joseph Morales def. Eduardo Henrique by way of first-round submission (rear-naked choke)
Daniil Donchenko def. Richard Martins by way of choice
Imanol Rodriguez def. Arshiyan Memon by way of first-round TKO (strikes)
Jeff Creighton def. Andreeas Binder by way of choice
Alibi Idiris def. Furkatbek Yokubov by way of choice
Matt Dixon def. Alex Sanchez by way of first-round TKO (strikes)
Roybert Echeverria def. Tumelo Manyamala by way of second-round submission (rear-naked choke)
Rodrigo Sezinando def. Diego Bianchini by way of choice
