Patrick Habirora Triumphs Over Danny Roberts in PFL Europe Debut

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00:00this one was featured with a headline fight by patrick habarora versus danny roberts now it's

00:05supposed to be a battle of undefeated belgian prospects with habarora on the card his fight

00:10an opponent got changed a couple weeks out danny roberts jumps in habarora of course a 24 year old

00:14the belgian bomber 21 and 6 amateur record had won his last eight amateur fights before

00:20starting his pro career unbeaten he was fighting up in this fight at weight class with danny

00:25roberts stepping in here the 37 year old englishman former ufc fighter had 14 fights in there

00:30lost three in a row at the end before moving now over to the pfl where he made his pfl debut on this

00:35pfl europe card headlined it right out of the gates we thought the experience of roberts even though

00:39you know a big age gap there that the experience fighting top level opponents over the ufc versus

00:44this prospect who maybe hadn't been fully tested by some of you know someone of roberts career

00:50that we favored roberts maybe he gets the decision victory nope didn't even get out of the first

00:56round because habarora wins it first round tko four minutes and 32 seconds in a head kick

01:03nasty head kick as you see there puts roberts on his back and that is the end of the fight

01:09habarora was doing great early and he's stalking now the guy's throwing too much early on kind of

01:14feeling each other out roberts went for a takedown but habarora stopped it he was doing a good job

01:19keeping it on the feet letting some good shots and with less than a minute left 30 seconds left

01:24you know he one one minute left he throws a couple shots kind of gets roberts attention maybe backs

01:29him up a little bit and that creates a space for him to throw that big head kick with 30 seconds left

01:33that's it fight over he remains unbeaten now habarora seven and oh six of those seven by ko tko

01:40five of those six in the first round so a lot of first round finishes for this unbeaten prospect

01:45out of belgium we'll see what's next for him in the pfl you know do we get another couple fights

01:50here on the pfl europe i know they're having they announced some of those the next fight going to be

01:54in france in september we'll see if maybe he's on that card or you know later on i think there's

01:59another december card as well for the pfl in europe does he headline one of those does he get in

02:04you know a feature fight against another top opponent over there and try to build his name even

02:08more on the pfl europe we will see coming up for him as he is now seven no roberts 18 and nine