Israel Adesanya KNOCKED OUT by Imavov at UFC Saudi Arabia in front of Ronaldo as career hangs in balance

ISRAEL ADESANYA is successful middleweight limbo pursuing a daze KO decision to Nassourdine Imamov.

The erstwhile two-time middleweight champion threw down with the surging contender successful the main lawsuit of UFC Fight Night 250 successful Saudi Arabia.

Adesanya's backmost was good and genuinely up against the partition pursuing consecutive losses to Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis.

But the favourite failed to halt the rot arsenic Dagestani-born Frenchman Imavov picked up the biggest triumph of his vocation via a 2nd circular KO.

Adesanya was airy connected his feet from the get spell and landed a bid of hard debased kicks that rattled the pb limb of Imavov.

Imavov, however, was undeterred and continued to plod forward, putting himself successful scope to onshore a stiff shovel hook that snapped backmost the caput of the erstwhile champion.

Adesanya ate a immense close manus a infinitesimal and a fractional earlier the extremity of the circular but took it it well.

But helium didn't instrumentality the aforesaid changeable arsenic good soon aft the restart, crumpling to the canvas.

And Imavov followed up with a immense near uppercut and a barrage of ground-and-pound that forced referee Marc Goddard to question disconnected the contest.

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