Lone’er Kavanagh was patient in the opening minutes of his fight with Ramazan Temirov tonight at UFC 333 as his opponent applied early pressure, but when he suddenly switched up the gears he was ruthlessly efficient with his boxing to deliver an impressive TKO finish.

Round One

Spinning kick to the body from Temirov to start. Now a solid calf kick from Temirov.

Fast right hand from Temirov. Kavanagh still patient for now as he looks for his opportunities. He does manage to land a body kick. Temirov goes for power strikes, but Kavanagh glides out of range.

Kavanagh just avoids a punch and then lands a counter. He tries for a takedown, but opts not to commit to it.

Right hand for Temirov. He finds that punch again. He goes for a spinning body kick again, but it doesn’t connect.

Leg kick for Kavanagh. Temirov misses a punch but lands the follow-up. Everything thrown with power from Temirov, but means he misses big at times when Kavanagh sees it coming.

Temirov wading forward with more punches and does land one, but Kavanagh landed the counter better.

Kavanagh slickly blocks a punch on the right side and then blasts Temirov with a clean left uppercut counter that has him hurt. In an instant Kavanagh is in full attack mode, firing off a crisp combination of fast, accurate punches that sends Temirov falling backwards to the mat. He tries to scramble back up, but Kavanagh greets him with more left hands that keep him down and results in a TKO finish at 4.28mins of the opening round.