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English combined martial arts (MMA) star Yannick Bahati has made Cage Warriors historical past along with his beautiful knockout of Australian Charles Joyner.
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Bahati grabbed Joyner’s lead hand and unleashed a vicious proper backhand that immediately slept him.
Joyner fell backwards onto the canvas and was out like a lightweight because the referee dived over to guard him from a barrage of floor strikes from Bahati.
Bahati, nicknamed the ‘Black Mamba’, leapt as much as the highest of the cage and roared in delight.
The combat formally lasted 4 seconds, making it the quickest knockout in Cage Warriors historical past.
Bahati’s vicious end additionally settled the rating between him and Joyner given they fought to a cut up draw at Cage Warriors 181 final November.
However Bahati ensured the judges wouldn’t be known as into motion for the rematch due to his spotlight reel knockout.
It additionally snapped a run of 4 fights and not using a win for the 35-year-old.
Talking after his combat, Bahati known as out a few of his Cage Warriors rivals within the hopes of touchdown a world title shot.
“World title, child,” Bahati mentioned.
“James Webb, Andy Clamp. World title. Does not matter who’s subsequent.”
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Bahati additionally famous he beat fellow Birmingham native and former UFC welterweight champ Leon Edwards’ time for his quickest knockout.
Edwards required simply eight seconds to knock out Seth Baczynski on a UFC Combat Night time card in April 2015, the place he additionally earned a Efficiency of the Night time bonus.
Bahati’s win over Joyner was his first since transferring to Cage Warriors.
He had beforehand fought in Bellator and the Excessive Preventing Championship.
Certainly one of Bahati’s earlier opponents included UFC middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis.
The pair fought in August 2017 at EFC Worldwide 62.
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It was Du Plessis who prevailed that day as he submitted Bahati in simply 90 seconds due to a guillotine choke.
The defeat was simply the second of Bahati’s profession on the time as he endured a bleak run of 1 win in his subsequent eight fights.
However the ‘Black Mamba’ is now again within the win column and has made Cage Warriors historical past by doing so.