Watch: Joseph Benavidez wakes up screaming after Deiveson Figueiredo knocked him out

Watch: Joseph Benavidez wakes up screaming after Deiveson Figueiredo knocked him out

Deiveson Figueiredo holds Joseph Benavidez in a rear-naked choke

Ask any fight fan around the world what they thought of UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs. Benavidez 2 and they all would show a grimace of pain. That’s how brutal and one-sided the fight was but what a bout it was between two world-class fighters.

The first flyweight bout between the two took place last year at the start of March with the then No. 1 contender Deiveson Figueiredo taking on No. 2 contender Joseph Benavidez.

Benavidez secured the first round in his favor but within the first half of the second round, Benavidez and Figueiredo got caught in a head clash causing the American to bleed profusely from a huge gash on his forehead which was then taken advantage of by the Brazilian who immediately hit him with a straight right that took out Benavidez who tried getting back into the fight but to no avail.

Figueiredo won the fight, but he couldn’t claim the UFC flyweight belt due to being overweight, resulting in a sequel for July.

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The second fight was much more brutal. Figueiredo had the look like he had this fight in the bag as he hit Benavidez with a right hook within the opening seconds and kept catching with vicious rear-naked chokes that his title challenger was barely able to escape out off.

Benavidez was more arrogant than resilient and kept putting up with all the submission attempts and shots, however, it proved too much as ‘Deus da Duerro’ put his opponent to the ground and battered him with some ground and pound and even mixed in some elbow strikes.

Close to the end of the fight at 4:48, the Brazilian was declared the winner when he caught Benavidez in a rear-naked choke and it was gruesome because Benavidez didn’t tap out but rather got choked to sleep and the look on his face was enough to understand the amount of pain and suffocation he felt.

Detailed report of Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Joseph Benavidez’s second fight

Deiveson Figueiredo(L), Joseph Benavidez(R)
Deiveson Figueiredo(L), Joseph Benavidez(R)

The second fight between Deiveson Figueiredo and Joseph Benavidez which took place at UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs Benavidez 2 was grueling and tough to watch and everybody who watched that fight should be thankful that they weren’t in that ring.

Figueiredo proved himself as the face of the flyweight division when he took on Benavidez and came out on top not once, but twice.

The first round had several rear-naked choke attempts by Figueiredo and he attempted submission after submission on a fighter who hadn’t lost on the ground before but Benavidez somehow was able to make it through that devastating first round.

The second round was where his night came to an end as Figueiredo got him with a third knockdown of the fight after which the Brazilian showered elbow strike after elbow strike on his opponent, and then finally caught him in a very dismaying and disturbing rear-naked choke that from one angle it looked he was dying.

Benavidez, however, let out an outrageous cry when he came back to his conscience after being knocked out.

He was out for almost half a minute and when he came about, he let out an outrageous shout like he was having a bad dream, but his reality was far worse after he succumbed to two of his biggest and most humiliating losses both to the same fighter.

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