If Marlon Moraes hadn’t truly stepped into the elites at bantamweight, he sure has now. Moraes avenged his only UFC loss by hurting and submitting Raphael Assuncao in the first round of their headlining bout at UFC Fortaleza. After a rather average start by each man, Moraes connected with a stiff right hook that staggered Assuncao. The next one put him down and cut him. That was the beginning of the end.
Moraes jumped into Assuncao’s guard, methodically worked him over, then secured a guillotine. He rolled into mount with the choke sunk in, and Assuncao tapped for the first time in almost a decade.