Alex Pereira became UFC champion in a second division Saturday night, knocking out Jiri Prochazka at the 4:08 mark of the second round to claim the vacant light heavyweight title in the UFC 295 main event at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Pereira, who used to hold the middleweight belt, dropped Prochazka with a left hook and finished him off with elbows to the side of the head.
Pereira became the ninth two-division champion in UFC history, achieving the feat quicker than anyone else.
This was just the Brazilian’s seventh UFC fight and 11th professional MMA bout. It took UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture nine UFC fights to win titles in two different divisions, the fewest number before Pereira.
