Marcin Tybura submits Tai Tuivasa early in first round

Marcin Tybura picked up one among many quickest wins of his UFC occupation on Saturday as he submitted Tai Tuivasa inside the first spherical of their heavyweight important event.

Tybura (25-8) accomplished Tuivasa (15-7) with a rear-naked choke on the 4:08 mark. Tybura’s quickest UFC finish acquired right here on the 4:06 mark of a battle in opposition to Walt Harris in 2021. This one would have ended sooner, nonetheless Tuivasa refused to faucet and at last went unconscious. The heavyweight bout headlined UFC Fight Night time time contained within the Apex in Las Vegas.

“I was choking him for due to this fact prolonged,” Tybura said. “I would hear he was having a tricky time nonetheless nonetheless not giving up. I was contemplating, ‘Man, what’s he created from?'”

Tuivasa, of Australia, went into Saturday’s contest in decided need of a victory. The 31-year-old fan favorite has been in a little bit little bit of a freefall the all through earlier two years. He has now misplaced 4 in a row contained within the Octagon and has been accomplished in each loss.

He appeared good inside the opening minute, engaged on Tybura’s lead leg with low kicks. He decrease Tybura with a pleasing elbow out of the Thai clinch nonetheless gave up a takedown alongside the fence decrease than halfway by way of the spherical. As quickly as Tybura had Tuivasa down, he merely took his once more and hammered him with pictures to the side of the highest. Lastly, the pictures gave approach to the rear-naked choke, resulting in Tybura’s first win by submission since 2014.

Tybura, of Poland, has obtained three of his earlier 4, with the one loss coming to current interim champion Tom Aspinall. He has the fifth-most wins amongst full of life UFC heavyweights with 12.

Tuivasa, who was ranked No. 9 inside the division earlier to this battle, has not obtained since a second-round knockout of Derrick Lewis in February 2022.