‘Cowboy’ Oliveira Stopped A Charging Opponent With A Perfectly-Timed Uppercut At UFC: Long Island

These days the talent on the UFC roster is so deep that there’s some seriously amazing martial artists competing on the prelims of UFC Fight Night cards like tonight’s in Long Island. A perfect example of this is welterweight Alex ‘Cowboy’ Oliveira, who is 17-3 with only three of those wins coming via decision.

At this event he took on Ryan LaFlare and took him out at the 1:50 mark of the second round with a perfect counter uppercut, baiting LaFlare in with lowered hands and then cracking him so hard he collapsed to the canvas like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

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This solidifies Alex as the second deadliest ‘Cowboy’ in the UFC after Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, and who knows … a few more wins like this and the UFC may have to have the two fight for a second time. The first was at UFC Fight Night 83 in February of 2016, an event aptly named ‘Cowboy’ vs. ‘Cowboy’ and Donald managed to catch Alex in a triangle choke halfway through the first round.

Since then, Alex has gone 4-0-1 including this latest victory over LaFlare, and we continue to look forward to seeing him more. He’s always been a deadly finisher and it seems like his striking is only improving technically.