Lone'er Kavanagh bounces back with first-round TKO of Ramazan Temirov at UFC 333

Lone'er Kavanagh stopped Ramazan Temirov with first-round punches on the UFC 333 main card Saturday in Abu Dhabi, a finish the promotion recognized with a Performance of the Night bonus, according to the official UFC 333 results and Wikipedia's record of the card.

The London-born flyweight needed 4:28 to finish Temirov, improving to 11-2 and rebounding from a third-round submission loss to Brandon Royval at UFC 329 in July, a fight that had itself earned Kavanagh and Royval a Fight of the Night bonus. Before that loss, Kavanagh beat Brandon Moreno by unanimous decision in Mexico City in February, also earning Performance of the Night, according to his fight history on Wikipedia.

Temirov, an Uzbek fighter who fell to 20-4, was fighting for only the second time since serving a one-year suspension from Combat Sports Anti-Doping. He withdrew from a scheduled July 2025 bout with Asu Almabayev after testing positive for trimetazidine, which he said he had taken while treating a leg infection, and the suspension ran retroactive to July 5, 2025. He returned in July of this year with a first-round knockout of Steve Erceg before Saturday's loss to Kavanagh, according to Wikipedia's account of his career.

The result came earlier on a main card topped by Alexander Volkanovski's featherweight title defense against Movsar Evloev and Petr Yan's bantamweight title defense against Merab Dvalishvili.