UFC Baku Post-Fight Show | REACTION To Rafael Fiziev's Highlight-Reel Knockout Of Manuel Torres

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**Mike Heck** (1:01)
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All right, everybody, those are the Victory Horns.
The Victory Horns at 3:20 p.m. Eastern Time. It's a beautiful thing. Awesome when that happens. And they sound for Rafael Fiziev. How about it? In front of a home crowd in Baku, Azerbaijan.
First round, very competitive with Manuel Torres. Looks like Torres might have stole a little bit of momentum with the closing round shot there. That hard jab got Fiziev's attention. Round two, Fiziev comes out like a man possessed. Spinning wheel kick, vicious ground and pound. And Rafael Fiziev with an emotional victory, gets back on track, two fight, skid. No more big win for Rafael Fiziev. Then he called for a shot at the BMF title. We'll see how you guys feel about that. And perhaps a special guest will join me as well. But I am Mike Heck. Welcome to the UFC Baku Post Fight Show. What a weird card that was. I mean, it just, it's hard to explain cause the prelims were actually pretty fun. The first fight of the card was one of the worst fights I've ever seen in my entire life with one of the most questionable stoppages I've seen. In quite some time. And then we got real fun, right? Like Matsumoto and Omokan was sick. Then we had to Danil Donchenko's awesome knockout, Khan Ofli with the first round submission, Nersaltar Routabayev choking out Andrei Pulyaev. And that photo, if you haven't seen the photo that Jeff Batari of Getty and the UFC posted, it's on my Twitter. It's the most insane photo you'll ever see.
It's crazy. But what a finish for Nersaltar Routabayev, first round submission. And then Abdul Rakhman Yakayev, eight second knockout of Julius Walker. Michael Bisbing was ready to throw him into a title shot. Maybe we'd pump the brakes a little bit after beating Julius Walker. He's not a bad fighter, but I mean, come on now. And then we got a little, then we got a little weird with Hasenov and Eric Nolan, kind of halted some momentum. That was not a fun fight. And then the main card pops up and we got a nice finish from Abusbaga Madoff, a dominant win from Ikhom Alaskarov. Asu Omobayev with a Suleyev stretch. Crazy. Mateus Camillo with a wild first round knockout, big upset. Nobody really saw that coming against Azim Sadikov, at least anybody that I saw. There's probably some smart people out there watching this right now. Then we had a co-main event that was just terrible in a lot of respects between Shara Bullet and Michel Pereira. And then we were capped off with Rafael Fiziev just obliterating Manuel Torres. What a fight, man. What a fight. At the end, what a performance for Fiziev. The reaction was great. He needed that so, so badly and kind of put a stamp on things because that Shara Bullet-Michel Pereira fight put us in a tough spot. I'm sure Fiziev is getting a bonus for that.
But lightweight is just fun. It's just such a fun division. Manuel Torres is still super fun. He's probably not going to fight for a belt. He's a little... I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think he's 31, 32 years old. At lightweight, it's very difficult to get there anyways, not just because of the congestion, but because of the talent. It's the best division overall in the sport, pound for pound. And you got guys like Fiziev who are still there, who have just fought everybody. It's so hard to move forward in this division because eventually you're going to run into these guys who have fought everybody. Like people look at Fiziev and there's all these questions about him, but we have to truly look at the losses here. Two of these losses were to Justin Gage, who is the current champion of the world. And then on top of that, Marisha Ruffey, who is your timing child is unbelievable. Go ahead. Go ahead.