For a moment there, Tom Duquesnoy’s much-hyped UFC debut on Saturday night was looking like a dud.
The JacksonWInk fighter by way of Paris took his lumps from Patrick Williams in their UFC on FOX 24 bantamweight matchup, getting taken down, hit hard, and busted open.
Then Williams gassed badly, and Duquesnoy went from 0 to 60 in the blink of an eye.
Duquesnoy landed a vicious series of standing elbows in the closing second of the round, with Williams saved by the horn. There was no such luck in the second, as the bout was waved off following a wicked elbow to the temple at the 38-second mark.