MMA fans can’t quite believe what Maurício Ruffy managed to pull off at UFC 313.
The pre-event mood was dampened when two fighters withdrew from the card with almost no notice.
A ‘bad decision’ left fans inside the T-Mobile Arena booing after Mairon Santos vs Francis Marshall.
However, everything changed when King Green suffered a brutal knockout loss in the first main card fight.
Fans go wild for Maurício Ruffy knockout
Maurício Ruffy landed a picture-perfect spinning wheel kick in the first round of his UFC 313 bout.
Green bounced off the Octagon wall before landing face-first on the floor after being knocked out cold.
UFC fans immediately began talking up the finish as the best of 2025, with some people calling it one of the greatest knockouts of all time.
One fan said: “Insanity. That’s me of the greatest KOs of all time. WOW.” While another asked: “KO OF THE YEAR???”
“That looked painful,” someone else tweeted.
“That was clean and nasty,” a fourth fan added.
“What a KO Brutal,” another X user wrote.
“Holy s—,” this shocked fan exclaimed.
Maurcio Ruffy calls out Beneil Dariush
Ruffy used his post-fight moment on the mic with Joe Rogan to send a message to Dana White.
The 28-year-old Brazilian asked for a double bonus before calling out a long-time lightweight contender.
“I’ve always wondered what would it take for a fighter to get two bonuses in one night,” Ruffy said via a translator.
“Maybe that will pressure Dana, Hunter [Campbell], and Sean Shelby to reconsider maybe two bonuses for the night.”
Ruffy added when asked who he wants to fight next: “Maurcio Ruffy-Beneil Dariush.
“A Fight Night main event. What do you think?”