The best and worst from UFC Fight Night 163: Magomedsharipov vs. Kattar

#3 Best: Danny Roberts saves his UFC career in the best way possible

Danny Roberts saved his UFC career with his KO of Zelim Imadaev

British Welterweight Danny Roberts undoubtedly had his back to the wall coming into tonight’s event; he’d lost his last two fights in pretty bad fashion, submitting to Claudio Silva in controversial fashion and then being violently knocked out by Michel Pereira, a fighter who has since been exposed as more flash than substance. A third loss tonight and it probably would’ve been curtains for ‘Hot Chocolate’.

Instead, Roberts hung tough against a dangerous striker in Zelim Imadaev, and managed to survive plenty of heavy blows in the first round without being hurt or stunned as we’ve seen before. And after working Imadaev over with some knees in the second round, he then uncorked perhaps the best knockout of his UFC career – a whipping left hook that sent his Russian foe spinning around before crashing face-first to the mat.

Not only will this knockout resurrect Roberts’ UFC career, but it should move him into the good books of the UFC brass; prior to his fight we’d had three slower decisions that dragged the show to a crawl. Roberts’ knockout woke everyone back up, and UFC President Dana White doesn’t tend to forget such things.