Sherdog’s Top 10: UFC Fight Night Knockouts

9. Yoel Romero vs. Lyoto Machida
UFC Fight Night 70
June 27, 2015 | Hollywood, Florida

Romero put the rest of the Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight division on high alert. The 2000 Olympic silver medalist grinded Machida to dust with third-round elbow strikes from the half guard in the UFC Fight Night “Machida vs. Romero” main event at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Machida met his end 98 seconds into Round 3, as he encountered a special brand of savagery. Romero spent much of his time pursuing the Brazilian while he circled on the perimeter. Machida picked his spots but could only avoid the Cuban wrestler’s destructive talents for so long. Early in the third round, Romero executed a knee-tap takedown, climbed to half guard and uncorked his ground-and-pound. His shots grew in ferocity before the “Soldier of God” smashed Machida with a series of short elbows to the face that brought it to a close.

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