While Magomed Ankalaev’s performance at UFC 313 was good enough to capture the light heavyweight title, it hardly set the world on fire.
Ankalaev dethroned Alex Pereira in the evening’s main event, scoring a unanimous decision victory over ‘Poatan’ to pick up his first bit of gold inside the Octagon. Statistically, Ankalaev outworked Pereira every step of the way. He outstruck the former GLORY Kickboxing champion, notched over a round’s worth of control time, and delivered a dozen takedown attempts.
All in all, it was a pretty standard performance from Ankalaev that left few impressed, including Jiri Prochazka who slammed the Dagestani for his lack of killer instinct during an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show.