At 2:20 of the fifth round at UFC 177, defending Bantamweight Champion TJ Dillashaw, knocked out Joe Soto with a huge head kick. Soto took the fight on short notice when Renan Barao couldn’t make weight. While Barao was trying to cut weight, he passed out and then eventually needed to be rushed to the hospital.
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Soto, making his UFC debut, fought extremely competitively into the fifth round and unfortunately got caught with a devastating blow.