Dan Ige had been waiting since 2021 for a win like this. And he finally got it.
Ige dropped Damon Jackson with a left hook to the chin in the second round of the UFC Fight Night co-main event on Saturday. That pull-back right-to-left combo delivered a fight-finishing shot, ending the bout with just under a minute remaining in the second round.
“I saw an opening,” says Ige, who collected a $50,000 bonus for the Performance of the Night award. “I hurt him with a few shots before that, and I needed to slow it down and look for the right shot.