And suddenly, Matt Frevola’s light went out. In the third round against Frenchman Farès Ziam, during UFC Paris 3 at the Accor Arena, the American suffered a devastating knee strike to the face which completely knocked him out. Lying on the ground, the former victim of Benoît Saint Denis took several minutes to get up. With a swollen face, he finally came out of the cage carried by his clan, still totally groggy. He probably won’t remember the last seconds of his fight.
Because the KO is incredibly violent. While he dominated the fight thanks to his kickboxing skills, and was close to a rear choke at the end of the second round, Farès Ziam continued to roll on his opponent in the third round. Exhausted and backed against the cage, Matt Frevola was lowering his flag when Lyonnais’ knee touched his chin, immediately sending him to the mat. The final two blows to the ground were of no use, victory was achieved.
Thanks to this success, with style, the Frenchman was to climb into the lightweight category with, why not, a place in the ranking of the 15 best. If this is not the case, it will in any case come very close. After his success, “The Smile Killer” hoped in any case to have sent a message to the UFC. “I trained very hard,” he said in the cage. I wanted to thank my friends, family and fans. I couldn’t hope for better. I wanted Matt Frevola, I wanted to show that I was the strongest, that’s what I did. »
A few minutes later, another Frenchman suffered a resounding knockout: Morgan Charrière. Faced with another BSD victim, Gabriel Miranda, the Ile-de-France resident “took his time”, as he likes to do. But when it came to accelerating, he did it brilliantly. At the very start of the second round, “The Last Pirate” hit the tip of the Brazilian’s chin with a superb left hook. On the ground, he never got up.
“It was a difficult fight today, I only had two weeks to prepare for it,” Charrière said in the cage after the fight. Like last year, I wanted to take my timing and beat the shit out of him. » A statement which ignited the crowd, who offered him a superb Marseillaise as he left the room.
