With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from October 2024: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie's Knockout of the Month award for October. At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting for your choice. * * * * Kazakhstan’s Diyar Nurgozhay (10-0) knocked out Poland’s Bartosz Szewczyk with a beautiful high kick to stay unbeaten in their light heavyweight bout.
The fight was pretty calm without much, if any, significant offense. The repetitive, uneventful rhythm quickly blew to smithereens when Nurgozhay went high and landed the big knockout blow midway through Round 2. BRUTAL HEAD KICK KO BY DIYAR NURGOZHAY 😳 — ESPN MMA (@espnmma) All appeared to be going splendid for Stephen Thompson until he ended up face first on the canvas midway through Round 3 of his bout vs.
Joaquin Buckley (19-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC). The party responsible for the was Buckley, who crumpled “Wonderboy” Thompson with a jumping right hook that ended the fight at 2:17 of Round 3 to extend his record to 4-0 since dropping to welterweight. Joaquin Buckley 😬 — Jason Williams (@jasoneg33) Islam Dulatov (11-1) cracked opponent Vanilto Antunes with a brutal standing elbow that folded the Brazilian unconscious and earned him a UFC contract.
Dilator kept his perfect record in tact when he introduced Antunes strike to put him down and leave UFC CEO Dana White in awe from his cageside se.
