UFC star KOs opponent, pays tribute to Trump

UFC prima Dominick Reyes made speedy enactment of Nikita Krylov connected Saturday nighttime successful a airy heavyweight bout astatine UFC 314 and paid tribute to President Donald Trump.

With astir 2:39 near successful the archetypal round, Krylov leaned guardant to jab Reyes. He leaned excessively acold guardant and got caught. Reyes deed him with a near and Krylov folded. He got Krylov connected the crushed with hammer fists doubly earlier the referee came implicit and stopped the fight.

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Nikita Krylov (red gloves) fights against Dominick Reyes during UFC 314 astatine Kaseya Center successful Miami connected April 12, 2025. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)

Reyes past ran implicit to Trump, who was sitting with Dana White, Elon Musk and others adjacent the cage, pointed astatine the president and bowed.

It was Reyes’ 3rd consecutive win. He knocked retired Dustin Jacoby past June and past Anthony Smith successful December. Before that, helium was connected a four-fight losing streak with losses to Jon Jones, Jan Blachowicz, Jiri Prochazka and Ryan Spann. Emotions were moving precocious aft the fight.

"It sucked," a teary-eyed Reyes said of his losing streak, "but my religion successful the Lord Jesus Christ, my religion successful myself and my family, it kept maine grounded, it kept maine here. I’m inactive present fighting. Anything that’s going connected successful your life, guys, conscionable support fighting. Never springiness up. You spell down, get up again. Just support going. There are brighter days ahead. Jesus has your back."

President Donald Trump attends a mixed martial arts combat astatine UFC 314, Saturday, April 12, 2025, successful Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Reyes said successful his post-fight property league it was a "dream-come-true fight."

"I got to correspond America successful beforehand of my president," Reyes said, via MMA Junkie. "He was rooting for maine and past helium told maine however arrogant of maine helium is that I’m representing the country. Since I was a tiny child, I ever wanted to conscionable the president. It’s ever benignant of been thing I wanted, and I yet got to bash it arsenic an athlete, and it goes down arsenic different nighttime I’ll retrieve for the remainder of my life."

The president received a raucous ovation arsenic helium entered the Kaseya Center.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk be UFC 314 astatine Kaseya Center successful Miami, April 12, 2025. ( Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)

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"Somewhat legendary," Trump said of the roar from the crowd. "It was legendary. It’s a large grant to person that benignant of ovation, truly due to the fact that it says we’re doing a bully job. If we weren’t doing a bully job, we’d get the opposite." 

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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