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with an arm-triangle choke after hurting him badly with a right hook in the middle of Round 2. As eye-opening as it was to see the UFC’s all-time leader in submission wins tapping out—it was Oliveira’s first submission loss at lightweight in nearly 12 years—it was just as instructive to see the ease with which Makhachev shrugged off the former champ’s arsenal.
Going forward, new champ Makhachev has a wealth of options, since he has faced relatively few of the longtime lightweight contenders. Nonetheless, his next opponent appears to be coming from outside the division. Featherweight kingpin, who weighed in as a backup for Saturday’s main event, was announced in its immediate aftermath as the presumptive challenger.
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