Aaron Pico stops Losene Keita in 74 seconds and calls for Lerone Murphy rematch at UFC 333
Pico moved to 15-5 with his second straight UFC win. Keita had come in as the replacement for the injured Arnold Allen.
Aaron Pico stopped Losene Keita with punches at 1:14 of the first round of their featherweight fight at UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
Pico hurt Keita early and finished the fight with punches on the ground as the referee stepped in.
Pico moved to 15-5 and has now won his last two UFC fights. Keita fell to 17-3.
Pico called for a rematch with Manchester's Lerone Murphy after the win. Murphy knocked Pico out in his UFC debut, and Pico then beat Patricio Freire on a decision.
Keita, a two-division Oktagon MMA champion, replaced Arnold Allen as Pico's opponent. He came into the fight off a knockout of Muhammad Naimov at UFC Paris, after losing a decision to Nathaniel Wood in his UFC debut in March. Pico said before the fight that he had no problem facing Keita.
The fight opened the main card, straight after Dominick Reyes' first-round stoppage of Azamat Murzakanov. UK times for the rest of the card are on our UFC 333 UK start time page.
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