Islam Dulatov has arrived.
The German fighter-turned-YouTube star finally made his promotional debut Saturday when he knocked out Adam Fugitt at UFC 318. The stoppage came at the 4:06 mark of Round 1 of their welterweight prelim bout at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.
Dulatov (12-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) connected with a check left hook that floored Fugitt (10-5 MMA, 2-3 UFC) before he finished him off with follow-up punches.
Dulatov, 26, signed with the UFC in October off Dana White’s Contender Series. He was expected to face Fugitt in Seattle in February but withdrew due to injury. Dulatov and his brother own a successful YouTube channel, which has over 140,000 subscribers at the time of this publication.
Fugitt, 36, has alternated losses and wins thus far in his UFC tenure.
