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Yaroslav Amosov moves to 27 fights undefeatedYaroslav Amosov made a winning instrumentality to MMA aft beating Logan Storley via unanimous determination astatine Bellator 291 successful Dublin.
The welterweight champion retained his rubric successful his archetypal bout since warring successful the Ukrainian service against Russia's invasion.
Amosov, 28, was relentless and precise successful a near-flawless performance.
All 3 judges saw it 50-45 for Amosov, who dedicated his triumph to Ukraine.
"Ukrainian radical I emotion you," Amosov said. "I privation to accidental convey you my Ukrainian service for defence, convey you for helping my country. Please don't hide what's happening [in Ukraine]."
Amosov returned to the Bellator cage connected the play of the one-year day of Russia's penetration of Ukraine.
Twelve months agone helium scrambled to get his household safely crossed the borderline earlier driving 36 hours backmost to his hometown of Irpin to support it.
He pulled retired of his scheduled archetypal rubric defence past May to enactment successful Ukraine - offering Storley to accidental to go interim champion successful his lack - but was convinced by household and friends since past to beforehand bid successful Ukraine by resuming his warring career.
Amosov has utilized the spotlight admirably to archer his and Ukraine's communicative and represented his state passim the week successful Dublin, nary much truthful than his near-perfect show against 30-year-old Storley.
He entered the cage wearing a T-shirt bearing the colours of the Ukrainian emblem and displaying the words "colors of freedom" - conscionable arsenic Oleksandr Usyk did erstwhile helium fought Anthony Joshua past August.
Despite some men being accomplished grapplers, the archetypal circular was conducted wholly connected the feet.
Amosov was crisp and concise successful his shots, landing a hard near connected Storley successful an speech earlier forcing the American backmost with different flurry moments later.
An ambitious footwear from Amosov missed Storley, who returned to his country astatine the extremity of the archetypal circular with a chopped beneath his close eye.
Amosov went to his kicking crippled successful the 2nd and the unit and assortment from the undefeated champion made Storley's beingness hard arsenic helium tried to get adjacent to the Ukrainian.
Mixing abbreviated punches with caput kicks, Amosov stunned Storley again and the swelling nether the interim champion's oculus gradually became worse.
Storley struggled to get clasp of Amosov successful the third, who would reply with crisp counters whenever his hostile closed the distance.
The Ukrainian wounded Storley again with a near hook followed by a flurry of speedy punches and slammed him against the cage earlier taking him down.
Storley was capable to get backmost to his feet and narrowly avoided different head-kick from Amosov arsenic they pulled distant from each other.
The 4th circular saw Storley present a bully backwards elbow connected Amosov successful the clinch earlier defending a caput footwear contempt his backmost being turned.
Storley continued to locomotion guardant into the Amosov tempest contempt humor pouring from his close eye, but the champion continued to dominate
He wounded Storley with 2 lefts successful speedy succession and cruised into the last circular arguably 4 rounds to the good.
Amosov searched for the decorativeness successful the last round, throwing everything helium had astatine his rival but Storley was capable to basal firm.
With scatterings of Ukrainians successful the crowd, Amosov's sanction rang retired successful his autochthonal lingua arsenic the combat drew to a close.
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