One of the UFC's most breathtaking knockout artists just got brutally knocked out on Fight Island

• One of the UFC's most breathtaking finishers, Joaquin Buckley, just got knocked out on Saturday.
• Buckley dropped a first-round loss to Alessio di Chirico inside the newly-built Etihad Arena on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi.
• Di Chirico threw a head kick at Buckley, bouncing his shinbone of the American's dome, which dropped him to the floor in an instant.
• The 185-pounder then pounced on Buckley and hit him with three successive hammer fists to the skull.
• Watch the brutal but brilliant knockout below.

FIGHT ISLAND - One of the UFC's most breathtaking knockout artists just got brutally knocked out on Saturday.

Joaquin Buckley took great momentum into the Fight Island Octagon inside the newly-built Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.

He had two knockout wins in the last three months, inspired Kanye West to integrate one of his finishes into a music video, and prompted Donald Trump to call the UFC boss Dana White and ask him if he'd ever seen a finish like the one Buckley mastered in October.

But in the lead mixed martial arts company's first event of 2021, it was Alessio di Chirico who added a highlight to his reel - with Buckley being the victim of a brutal shinbone to the dome.

The kick dropped Buckley in an instant, and, sensing the finish, di Chirico pounced on the American and hit him with three successive hammer fists to the skull.

It was all over.

Watch the finish right here:

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Di Chirico refused to give an interview after the event, saying winners and losers should be spoken to after fights because mixed martial arts is a two-person sport.

"I'm sorry, I'm repeating this so many times, but I won't do an interview without my opponent," he said.

"I don't like the fact that only the winner is interviewed, because I come from three losses … I don't think it's good. I don't like this."

He then walked out of the arena having advanced his pro MMA record to 13 wins (six knockouts, four submissions, and three decisions) against five losses.

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