Off the back of his high-stakes win tonight in the main event of UFC Vegas 103, Manel Kape has vowed to scoop the flyweight title from the incumbent, Alexandre Pantoja — in fact, claiming he will “steal” the Brazilian star’s crown.
Kape, who entered tonight’s short-notice main event clash with impromptu replacement, Asu Almabayev off the back of a December win over Bruno Gustavo da Silva, turned in his second straight win.
And likely to narrowly move up in the flyweight rankings come next week, Kape scored his second straight third round knockout, felling Almabayev with a series of knees and follow-up strikes at the Octagon fence.