Highlights: Takashi Sato Destroys Ben Saunders With Vicious Hellbows

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UFC newcomer Takashi Sato took on longtime veteran Ben Saunders in the featured preliminary card bout of tonight’s (Sat., April 27, 2019) UFC on ESPN+ 8 from the BB&T Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

In the end, it was a wildly successful UFC debut where Sato secured a huge win. However, it wasn’t without some adversity when Saunders wobbled him early with a right hook:

Sato soon found his groove in the second round, however. He dropped Saunders with a perfect straight left hand down the middle:

Sato then swarmed Saunders with a vicious barrage of elbows, cutting him open wide to earn a brutal stoppage where ‘Killa B’ was badly out of sorts.

Watch it courtesy of the UFC here: