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After two weeks on the road in Saudi Arabia and Australia, the UFC returns to the ‘Warehouse of Dreams’ this weekend for UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs Rodrigues.
To its credit, the incoming UFC event is far stronger than many of the recent showings at The Apex with the likes of Calvin Kattar, Ismael Bonfim, Edmen Shahbazyan, and Angela Hill all set to compete.
This weekend’s card also sees the long-awaited return of welterweight KO artist Khaos ‘The Oxfighter’ Williams who not so long ago, scored one of the most vicious knockouts in the division’s history.
Khaos Williams’ best-ever knockout left UFC bogeyman motionless
Despite having the aura of a 20 or 30-fight UFC veteran, the insanely powerful American welterweight only entered the promotion in 2020.
Williams’ debut couldn’t have gone any better, announcing himself as the ‘danger man’ of the 170lb division with a 27-second KO of Alex Morono on the undercard of UFC 247: Jones vs Reyes.
Yet ‘The Oxfighter’ would top that knockout just a few months later when he stepped in to face popular contender and ever-dangerous UFC bogeyman, Abdul Razak Alhassan.
Alhassan is the truest definition of a ‘knockout artist’, with every single one of his 12 professional wins coming via KO/TKO and heading into that bout, ‘Judo Thunder’ was favored to finish Williams in devastating fashion… Obviously, no one told Williams that.
Less than 30 seconds into the very first round, Khaos Williams would unload a vicious straight right hand that instantly sent Alhassan crashing to the canvas.
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And if he wasn’t unconscious from the moment that shot landed, he certainly was two seconds later when Williams followed up with an equally nasty right hand that landed flush on the sleeping Alhassan.
The broadcast booth understandably lost their cool, with Brendan Fitzgerald screaming “Khaos Williams bringing the chaos once again; you want to talk about ‘Don’t Blink’ performances, Khaos Williams!”
Alhassan was left unconscious for an uncomfortably long time, with Williams later telling MMA Junkie that it was the ‘scariest knockout his career’.
Ironically, Alhassan would suffer another ‘KO of the Year’ contender at UFC Vegas 101.
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Khaos Williams returns to action at Fight Night: Cannonier vs Rodrigues
Since that devastating KO win over Alhassan, Khaos Williams has been stop-start inside the UFC octagon.
Whilst he’s scored four wins – two of which arrived by flush knockout – he’s also dropped two decision losses at the hands of Michel Pereira and Randy Brown.
Williams returns to action this weekend on the prelims of UFC Fight Night 251 against talented Brazilian prospect Gabriel ‘Marretinha’ Bonfim.
The Dana White’s Contender Series alumni is currently 16-1 as a professional and 3-1 under the UFC banner yet only fought once in 2024; that being a unanimous decision win over Ange Loosa back in July.
Williams remains a moderate underdog to Bonfim, with around 58% of Tapology users siding with the Brazilian – can Khaos upset the applecart once again as he did to Alhassan? Find out on Saturday, February 15.
