In his latest bout, Dober faced an explosive Rafael Alves, who brings the same speed as McKinney, but with a few more tools. Opening the fight with a capoeira-style kick, Alves showed Dober techniques that he’d never seen before inside the Octagon.
But this didn’t bother him one bit. Despite an initial onslaught of speed and power, Dober weathered the storm and waited for Alves to lose some steam before taking over the fight. By the end of the first round and all the second, Dober was on the front foot, leading the dance. Always striking first, Dober landed most of his strikes without receiving anything in return.
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In the second round, Dober targeted the body once he noticed Alves was slowing down. However, an eye poke allowed Alves to recover a lot of his energy to go all-out in the final seconds of the round, a sequence that included Alves swiftly evading strikes then hitting the Robot.
Entering the third, Dober stuck with the same plan: target the body. This time, it only took one perfect left hook to the body to send Alves to the mat and close the show.
