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On Saturday at UFC on ESPN 15, Shana Dobson made Mariya Agapova pay for calling her out.
After winning her UFC debut in impressive fashion earlier this year, Agapova (9-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) specifically asked to fight Dodson (4-4 MMA, 2-3 UFC) in her second octagon appearance. Agapova got her wish at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, but the fight didn’t go according to plan.
The first round had a bit of back-and-forth, but Agapova was getting the better of it. It was clear she was exerting too much energy to maintain over a 15-minute fight, though, and she started fading in the second.
Dobson took advantage of the situation and managed to get top position during a scramble. She then brutalized Agapova with strikes until the referee decided he’d seen enough and called it off at the 1:38 mark of Round 2.
Watch the final sequence in the video below (via Twitter):
CASH THOSE BETS! @Shana_Dobson with a SHOCKING upset!
Watch the close of the card on @ESPN & ESPN+ pic.twitter.com/HcPG4F3DOk
— UFC (@ufc) August 23, 2020
Dobson came into the fight with a sub-.500 record and on a three-fight losing streak. She hadn’t won since December 2017 and likely was fighting for her place on the roster. The odds reflected as much, and according to ESPN, it was the biggest upset to happen in the UFC in nearly five years, since Holly Holm’s stunning win over Ronda Rousey (via Twitter):
Per @ESPNStatsInfo, Dobson cashing as a +800 underdog is the biggest upset in the UFC since Holly Holm cashed as a +870 against Ronda Rousey.
— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN) August 23, 2020
According to Jon Anik on the broadcast, Agapova was taken out of the octagon on a stretcher, “perhaps due to exhaustion.” Dobson, meanwhile, reveled in her victory.
“We saw this coming,” Dobson said in her post-fight interview with Anik. “We’re excited, but we’re not surprised. We expected to get this dub, no matter how we were going to get it.”
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