‘The Welsh Wrecking Machine’: John Phillips grabs first UFC win with 14-second KO in Copenhagen (VIDEO)

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Former boxer-turned-mixed martial artist John Phillips lastly scored his first UFC win on the fourth time of asking, however he wasted completely no time at UFC Copenhagen as he knocked out Alen Amedovski in simply 14 seconds.

Phillips had misplaced every of his three earlier octagon appearances, resulting in worries about his UFC future. However the jovial Welshman, whose knockout punch energy has earned him a loyal fanbase again in Wales, was given one other alternative to register his first win in opposition to Amedovski in Copenhagen.

Phillips surprised Amedovski with a giant left because the pair engaged in a wild putting change.

However these conditions are precisely the place Phillips thrives, and the heavy-handed Welshman linked with one other large left that despatched Amedovski crashing to the canvas.

It gave an elated Phillips his first knockout win and marked the end result of a journey that noticed him dwelling in a cell house, with out electrical energy, outdoors of Dublin gymnasium SBG.

So it’ll have come as little shock that “The Welsh Wrecking Machine” declared the day because the “finest day of my life thus far”