Former interim UFC light-weight title challenger, Kevin Lee managed to return to winning-ways — in somewhat hasty vogue over the course of the weekend at a Lights Out Championship occasion in his native Michigan, touchdown a primary spherical rear-naked choke submission success in opposition to Thiago Oliveira.
Lee, a former perennial contender on the light-weight restrict and a former interim championship challenger below the banner of the UFC, snapped a retirement of types over the weekend in his conflict with Oliveira, laying fast waste to the previous Bellator MMA fighter with a rear-naked choke win inside just two minutes of the opening round.
Kevin Lee wraps up first spherical win at Lights Out Championship 17
Sidelined since that includes at UFC Vegas 76 again in July of final 12 months, Kevin Lee suffered a dominant first spherical guillotine choke lack of his personal in a devastating defeat in opposition to Rinat Fakhretdinov on the Apex facility.
And booked to return at a Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA event in November in his continued run of exercise, Lee gained plaudits for his submission win in opposition to Oliveira — notching his ninth stoppage through that technique as well following a previous technical submission win over former light-weight rival, Michael Chiesa of their title-eliminator.
Returning to profitable methods along with his submission of Oliveira over the weekend, earlier this month Lee expressed his disappointment with how the UFC elected in opposition to providing him a possible route again to the promotion by an look on the Contender Sequence.
I’ve heard Dana (White) sort of brag about Belal Muhammad when he wrapped the belt round him and he bragged that he received extra views than every other champion — and it was like 20,000,000 views or one thing,” Kevin Lee defined.
“However my brother, former fighter-turned-famous meals vlogger, Keith Lee, did a small video for me preparing for my final struggle within the Apex and — maintain this in thoughts, it is a prelim Apex card struggle, and my brother did a publish and he received 12,000,000 views in comparison with a champion that did 20,000,000 views and Dana’s bragging about it, so I don’t suppose that’s the problem.”
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