Jackson McVey VS Wesley Schultz

Jackson McVey stopped Wesley Schultz via TKO (knee) at 4:13 of round one in their middleweight bout at UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Rodrigues in Sacramento, California. McVey buckled Schultz with a knee to the body, then followed him to the canvas with ground-and-pound until the referee stepped in. The fight turned on that single body shot, which left Schultz unable to defend or recover. McVey noted afterward that the win carried extra personal weight, as Schultz had previously defeated him on the amateur circuit.

Jackson McVey, a 6-foot-4 southpaw who earned a Performance of the Night bonus with a first-round D'arce choke in his UFC debut win, looks to build on that breakthrough against Wes Schultz, who bounced back from a first-round stoppage loss with a third-round guillotine finish in May. Both middleweights are grappling-forward fighters capable of threatening submissions from multiple positions, setting up a technical ground chess match between two men who thrive when the fight gets uncomfortable.