The highest of the Bellator 291 major card bought witnessed a title unification bout that concerned the returning champion, Yaroslav Amosov, pitching a shutout towards the interim champ, Logan Storley, throughout 5 rounds.
After he captured the welterweight title in 2021, Amosov felt a private name to responsibility over in his homeland of Ukraine. Throughout his time away, Storley stepped in and received himself the interim title, however now the king is again!
Amosov had a powerful begin, showing mild on his ft whereas being the sharper striker. Storley was discovering himself at vary, having a number of issue closing the gap do to the jousting strikes of Amosov. Yaroslav continued to look nice within the second stanza. He saved Storley on the top of his strikes, which gave him sufficient time to acknowledge the takedown makes an attempt. Storley was additionally consuming a ton of leg kicks, which wasn’t serving to him shut the gap both.
The out-classing dripped proper into the latter rounds. Amosov was nonetheless launching his strikes, and stuffing the takedowns. It was truly Amosov who got here up with a takedown on Storley within the third. Credit score to Storley for hanging robust, however this was a technique visitors. In truth, this may be as nice as we now have ever seen Amosov. For him to have the ability to do that to Logan is about as spectacular because it will get. Time to start out the dialog to debate who’s the very best welterweight on the planet!
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