LAS VEGAS – Abdul Razak Alhassan got back on track with a spectacular, lightning-fast knockout of Alessio Di Chirico. In the final prelim bout of UFC on ESPN 30 , Alhassan (11-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) only needed 17 seconds to dispatch of his middleweight opponent and did it on the first strike he landed. The win meant a lot for the former welterweight, who believed his job could have been on the line as he entered the bout on a three-fight losing streak. “I went into my last fight saying, ‘If I don’t win, this is it,’” Alhaassan said at the post-fight news conference. “My coaches and everyone around me told me, ‘Don’t think about the negative. Go in there and do what you gotta do.
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