Carlos Ulberg dropped Dominick Reyes within the opening spherical for his ninth straight win at UFC Fight Night in Australia.
Published On 28 Sep 2025
New Zealand’s Carlos Ulberg made quick work of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mild heavyweight title challenger Dominick Reyes on Saturday night time with a simple first-round stoppage at 4:27 at UFC Fight Night in Perth, Australia.
Ulberg (13-1 MMA) saved his messaging easy following his ninth consecutive UFC win, confirming his attendance for subsequent Saturday’s UFC 320 title combat rematch in Las Vegas between Russian Magomed Ankalaev (21-1, 1 NC, or no contest) and ex-light heavyweight champion Alex Pereira (12-3) of Brazil.
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“I’m coming [for the belt],” Ulberg mentioned following the combat.
Ulberg dominated the principle occasion bout from the outset, relentlessly coming ahead and stifling Reyes’s punches.
Following a straight left punch that appeared to stun Reyes, Ulberg then seized his alternative with lower than a minute remaining within the opening spherical, unleashing an enormous proper hook that knocked the American to the bottom, ending the combat.
Reyes’s (15-4 MMA) loss on Sunday snapped his three-fight successful streak, and it was his first knockout/technical knockout (KO/TKO) loss since November 2022 to Ryan Spann.
“My purpose with Reyes was to field him, and he felt the ability early, and I noticed in his eyes that he didn’t need to really feel that once more, so the following alternative I went with the 2 and dropped him,” Ulberg mentioned.
 The co-headliner occasion at mild heavyweight noticed the house nation’s Jimmy Crute (14-4-2) win back-to-back fights, this time beating Croatia’s Ivan Erslan (14-6) by rear-naked-choke at 3:19 of the primary spherical.
Erslan continues to be with no UFC win via three appearances, final coming away with a victory in February 2024. Meanwhile, Crute’s submission was the sixth of his profession.
Featherweight Jack Jenkins of Australia used his quantity hanging and ahead motion to beat the at all times sturdy Ramon Taveras of the United States by unanimous choice: 30-27, 30-27, 29-28.
Jenkins (14-4) has gained 5 of his final seven, whereas Taveras (10-4) has misplaced three of his final 5 and has gone greater than 20 months with no win.
For the second straight combat, UFC welterweight veteran Neil Magny of the US saved the submission pattern rolling with a D’arce choke in opposition to Australian fan favorite Jake Matthews at 3:08 of the third spherical.
Magny (31-14) survived an early onslaught from Matthews (22-8) earlier than rallying to safe his twenty fourth UFC win and enhance his successful streak to 2.
