‘Nothing like a walk off KO’

PERTH, Australia – Justin Tafa is proud of how he bought out of the gate in 2023.

The heavyweight scored a quick and brutal knockout over Parker Porter on the primary card of Saturday’s UFC 284 at RAC Area in Perth, Australia. Tafa (6-3 MMA, 3-3 UFC) slept Porter simply 66 seconds into the competition. It was as clear because it will get with a knockout, and no follow-up pictures have been wanted.

“There’s nothing like a walk-off KO in Australia, your private home turf, hometown, dwelling soil,” Tafa informed reporters at his UFC 284 post-fight information convention.

The 29-year-old now has back-to-back wins within the UFC for the primary time and is proud of the victory and among the strides he made.

“For me, it’s all these intangible issues that you just don’t see – psychological issues, having the ability to take in the gang’s vitality with out making it blind your imaginative and prescient, and all that,” Tafa mentioned. “It’s good to come back again and knock somebody out in entrance of my sons. They didn’t imagine me that I knock folks out.”

Tafa is hoping to get a fast return. He desires in on the UFC 287 card in Miami on April 8 – an occasion headlined by a middleweight title rematch between Alex Pereira and Israel Adesanya.

“I’m considering that card that Izzy is on,” Tafa mentioned of his return. “My little brother is likely to be on that, so I wish to be on the identical – you already know, avoid wasting flight cash in there.”

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