with a devastating knee in the light heavyweight semifinals of the Professional Fighters League playoffs. Neither man knew what hit him. Wilkinson eschewed any sort of feeling-out process and simply drowned them with powerful strikes.
Yet for all his dominance, there were still doubts surrounding Wilkinson as he prepared for his light heavyweight tournament final withon Nov. 25, a $1 million payday on the line. Akhmedov was once a Top 10 middleweight in the UFC and had impressed in his run to the final. He had gone 3-0 with two finishes and a dominant decision over the previously unbeaten.
Wilkinson sure proved me wrong. Quite incredibly, the Australian had sharpened his striking even more in the three and a half months since his PFL semifinal. There was sturdier defense and a fine use of feints. He battered Akhmedov with punches and expertly used the uppercut whenever the Dagestani tried to wrestle with him. Wilkinson likely would have knocked out Akhmedov at the end of the second round had he been given a few more seconds with which to work.
Sherdog contributor Keith Shillan, a driving force behind Wilkinson’s nomination as “Comeback Fighter of the Year,” put it this way: “If you had told me a year ago that
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