Ismael Bonfim places Terrance McKinney out chilly with ridiculous flying knee KO

Ismael Bonfim scored what in all probability would be the 2023 MMA Knockout of the 12 months when he face planted Terrance McKinney on the early preliminary card of UFC 283 Saturday at Jeunesse Enviornment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It additionally could rank as probably the greatest KOs within the historical past of the UFC. It’s not a nasty evening for a man in his UFC debut.

Bonfim’s hanging was at one other stage and he was hurting the extremely regarded McKinney all through the bout.

He cracked McKinney with a proper hand, that despatched McKinney’s mouthpiece flying. McKinney managed to remain on his toes, however he was clearly compromised and by the way in which that Bonfim was going, it was pretty clearly it wouldn’t final for much longer.

Bonfim leapt into the air and appeared as if he’d throw a proper knee. However Bonfim switched to a left and the knee caught McKinney on the fitting facet of his jaw and neck. McKinney went down face-first and the bout was instantly over at 2:17 of the second spherical.

McKinney has been spectacular within the early levels of his UFC run, however he had his palms full with Bonfim from the beginning on Saturday.

“We knew his conditioning wasn’t going to be excellent,” Bonfim mentioned. “So we skilled on prime of that and I will need to have thrown 200 knees [at my coach]. We knew that was going to occur and I used to be going to take him out within the second or the third.”

McKinney was 3-1 coming into the bout and had completed every of his wins. However he simply was no match for Bonfim on this evening, who placed on a present in entrance of the house followers within the UFC’s first pay-per-view card of the 12 months.