American Top Team’s Alexey Oleynik made history during UFC’s history making return

UFC returned May 9 in Florida in Jacksonville with UFC 249.

 

That wasn’t the only history being made that night as UFC fighter Alexey Oleynik was making history, too.

 

Not only was he part of the historic card, the first since the coronavirus pandemic, but this South Florida resident, via Russia, won his bout, beating Fabricio Werdum to become the first MMA fighter in history to win fights in four decades…

Nicknamed the Boa Constrictor, Oleynik is the first fighter in UFC history to finish with an Ezekiel choke. He is also the only fighter in UFC history to finish with an Ezekiel choke (twice)…

Read the full article in The Miami Herald here.