Luis Santos made it look like a walk in the park.
The well-traveled Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt wiped out Rafael Silva with a crushing first-round knee strike and follow-up soccer kicks in the One Championship “Tribe of Warriors” headliner on Saturday at Istora Senayan in Jakarta, Indonesia. The end came 1:17 into round one.
Santos set the tone with thudding kicks, lured Silva (40-16) into his wheelhouse and sent him crashing to the mat with a brutal stepping knee upstairs. Two soccer kicks followed, prompting referee Yuji Shamada to act in Silva’s best interests.