LAS VEGAS – Malcolm Wellmaker can’t wait for one more alternative to placed on a present.
Wellmaker (8-0) impressed on Dana White’s Contender Collection 69 when he face-planted Adam Bramhald for a first-round knockout Tuesday on the UFC Apex.
UFC CEO Dana White mentioned Wellmaker couldn’t have seemed higher as he awarded him a UFC contract. The undefeated 30-year-old got here out seemingly unscathed as he appears to be like to construct on his momentum.
“As quickly as a superb alternative comes throughout,” Wellmaker instructed reporters, together with MMA Junkie. “I’m ready by the cellphone. My coaches are going to hearken to the gives. Me, my coaches, Jason Home are going to sit down down and get again in there and attempt to do one other knockout.”
Wellmaker sat Bramhald down with a giant counter-right whereas backpedaling, a end he says he precisely envisioned.
“I simply acquired to offer a giant kudos to my group,” W`ellmaker mentioned. “The previous three or 4 fights, we had a sport plan and a imaginative and prescient for the precise means we had been going to complete fights and the identical factor occurred tonight.
“Working the jab, he’s acquired a leaping, open-wide left hook, and coming over with the highest with the suitable hand. I had a few interviews earlier than the battle, and I even instructed them it was going to be a proper hand. I noticed it, and I landed it.”
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