Lone’er Kavanagh stops Ramazan Temirov by first-round TKO at UFC 333

Lone’er Kavanagh beat Ramazan Temirov by first-round TKO at UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 24. MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz recorded the official result at 4:28 of the opening round.

The finish followed a scare for Kavanagh. In Cruz’s round-one account, Temirov rocked him with a right hand before Kavanagh hurt Temirov with a left uppercut and dropped him with a flurry. MMA Fighting’s Damon Martin reported that Kavanagh kept striking until the referee stopped the fight.

Temirov entered the bout with three UFC wins, according to Alexander K. Lee’s pre-fight report for MMA Fighting. Kavanagh, meanwhile, had beaten Brandon Moreno before losing his previous fight to Brandon Royval by third-round submission. In a pre-fight interview with MMA Fighting’s José Youngs, Kavanagh and was learning from the loss.