Petr Yan captured the vacant UFC bantamweight title with a fifth-round TKO win over Jose Aldo on the main card of UFC 251 from du Forum at UFC Fight Island in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
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Referee Leon Roberts stopped the fight at 3:24 of the fifth round after Yan landed a litany of punches with a prolonged ground-and-pound. The new bantamweight champion took control of the fight late in the fourth round with some hard punches before dominating in the fifth.