Michel Pereira storms through Michal Oleksiejczuk in 61 seconds at UFC 299

The Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to us tonight, March 9, 2024, for UFC 299, a 14-fight card going down from the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.

Headlining the event is bantamweight championship rematch between Sean O’Malley (17-1, 1 NC) and the only man to ever defeat him, no. 5 ranked Marlon Vera (23-8-1).

Co-headlining the event is a lightweight encounter between no. 3 ranked former interim champion Dustin Poirier (29-8, 1 NC) and no. 11 ranked Benoit Saint-Denis (13-1, 1 NC).

Our early preliminary co-main event of the evening at UFC 299 came in the middleweight division between dangerous strikers Michel Pereira (29-11, 2 NC) and Michal Oleksiejczuk (19-7, 1 NC).

Pereira came into the bout on a six-fight win streak, while Oleksiejczuk came in having gone 5-2 over his last seven.

Continue reading to see how this middleweight affair went down:

Official Result: Michel Pereira def. Michal Oleksiejczuk via technical submission (rear naked choke) at 1:01 of round one

Pereira opened up the bout with two hard round kicks to the body, before going to the body again with a right cross that badly hurt Oleksiejczuk. Pereira swarmed Oleksiejczuk along the fence, landing a pair of heavy knees before circling to his back.

Pereira proceeds to choke Oleksiejczuk unconscious without hooks sunk in, much like he did against Zelim Imadaev back in 2020.

Maaaaan Michel Pereira just ran through him wtf

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— 🌴ᴛʜᴇᴀʀᴛᴏꜰᴡᴀʀ🌴 (@TheArtOfWar6) March 10, 2024

Michel Pereira stunned UFC fans with his first-round knockout win over Danny Roberts in his promotional debut back in 2019, before losing back-to-back fights to Tristan Connelly and Diego Sanchez; the Connelly fight of which he simply wasted far too much energy in with a terrible gameplan, and the Sanchez fight of which he was clearly winning, but ultimately DQ’d in round three of.

Since then the Brazilian went on a five-fight win streak before moving up to 185 lbs. He went on to TKO Andre Petroski in 66 seconds of his middleweight debut, before stopping Oleksiejczuk tonight in 61 seconds.

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Brady Ordway

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