Rinat Fakhretdinov spoke prior to his fight about his wrestling skills and how it would be the difference in his fight with Kevin Lee.
Wrestling was never a factor in the fight, however, though it still only took Fakhretdinov less than a minute to dispose of Lee on Saturday at Apex in Las Vegas at UFC Vegas 76. But you don’t generally get to 20-1 in MMA without having a series of weapons to use in competition.
Just 35 seconds into the fight, Fakhretdinov threw a jab that came up short. But he followed that with a blistering right hand that was right on the money and immediately dropped Lee.