LAS VEGAS – Yuneisy Duben had it all mapped out.
The knockout that got Duben (6-0) a UFC contract at Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Series 70 might’ve been a shock to the MMA world and a giant upset to the oddsmakers, but not for the undefeated Venezuelan. Duben put out the lights on Shannon Clark (5-1) with a brutal right hand that left Clark stiff on the canvas. It was a brutal finish and one that she saw coming.
“Not just there (backstage) but also in my dreams and my thoughts,” Duben told reporters at the DWCS 70 post-fight news conference. “Every day I was visualizing that. Right in the locker room, I was saying to myself, ‘I’m going to knock her out. I’m going to knock her out.’ I would raise my own hand, and I just always had that in mind, and that’s what happened.”
