Chris Duncan earned one other memorable win as he submitted Terrance McKinney amid a tense first spherical of their light-weight bout at UFC 323 in Las Vegas.

After being surprised a number of occasions by McKinney’s strikes, Scotland’s Duncan dropped the American with an elbow earlier than taking management on the bottom.

With noise ranges contained in the T-Cellular Enviornment rising, Duncan submitted McKinney with an anaconda choke for his fourth straight UFC win.

It comes simply 4 months after Duncan’s brutal back-and-forth victory over Poland’s Mateusz Rebecki in a fight-of-the-year contender.

After beating McKinney, Duncan referenced his late mom in his post-fight interview.

In 2014, a day earlier than Duncan’s beginner debut, his mom Elaine was murdered by her boyfriend James Morley, who was jailed for all times for the crime.

“I misplaced my mom on the primary ever MMA combat I had, on the day of the weigh-ins she died. And I nonetheless went forward and fought,” mentioned Duncan.

“That’s coronary heart. You can not train coronary heart.”

Duncan’s triumph was his sixth in seven UFC fights since his debut in 2023 – and will see him break into the highest 15 of the light-weight rankings for the primary time.

The principle occasion noticed Russia’s Petr Yan finish Georgian Merab Dvalishvili’s reign as bantamweight champion, whereas Myanmar’s Joshua Van beat Brazil’s Alexandre Pantoja within the co-main to assert the flyweight title.