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Matches to Make After UFC Fight Night ‘McDonald vs. Lineker’

Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweights should be on high alert by now.

John Lineker stepped up his demolition derby at 135 pounds in the UFC Fight Night 91 main event, as he cut down Michael McDonald with first-round punches on Wednesday at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. “Hands of Stone” brought to a close 2:43 into round one, burying McDonald under a hailstorm of power punches.

A former flyweight, Lineker has carried his potent punching power with him to 135 pounds. The diminutive Brazilian -- he stand just 5-foot-3 -- has pieced together a five-fight winning streak, three of them as a bantamweight, and could soon be in position to challenge for the title.