Rafael Carvalho said he didn’t think this fight would go to the judges and he made sure of that, knocking out Alessio Sakara in just 40 seconds to defend his Bellator middleweight title at Bellator 190.
Sakara was looking to become the first Italian born fighter to win a major MMA title and was hoping fighting in front of his countrymen in Firenze, Italy would help him achieve that goal but Carvalho was having none of it, hurting Sakara with a right hand before putting him out with a vicious elbow along the cage.