VIDEO: Brazilian suffers brutal knockout with high kick and 'falls hard' in PFL preliminary card

João Dantas was brutally knocked out in the PFL Finals (Photo: Reproduction/Twitter)

Anyone who enjoys a brutal knockout has had reason to praise the PFL Finals since the first minute of the preliminary card of the event held this Friday (29), in Saudi Arabia. In the fight that kicked off the event, Spaniard Costello van Steenis needed just 48 seconds to violently knock out Brazilian João Dantas, in a duel valid for the middleweight (up to 83,9 kg).

With a powerful and precise right-footed kick, van Steenis hit João Dantas squarely in the head, who fell to the canvas unconscious, with his eyes open and his muscles rigid.

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VIDEO: Watch the brutal knockout suffered by João Dantas in the PFL

PFL 2024 Finals Results

MAIN CARD (15pm Brasília time)

Featherweight (up to 65,7 kg): Timur Khizriev x Brendan Loughnane

Flyweight (up to 56,7 kg): Dakota Ditcheva x Taila Santos

Light heavyweight (up to 93kg): Impa Kasanganay vs Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov

Welterweight (up to 77,1 kg): Shamil Musaev x Magomed Umatulov

Lightweight (up to 70,3 kg): Brent Primus x Gadzhi Rabadanov

Heavyweight (up to 120,2 kg): Denis Goltsov vs Oleg Popov

PRELIMINARY CARD (PFL MENA) (9:15 a.m. ET)

Featherweight (up to 65,7 kg): Marouane Bellagouit vs. Abdullah Al-Qahtani

Welterweight (up to 77,1 kg): Mohammad Alaqraa vs Omar El Dafrawy

Atom weight (up to 47,7 kg.): Hattan Alsaif x Lilia Osmani

Bantamweight (up to 61,2 kg): Ali Taleb x Rachid El Hazoume

Lightweight (up to 70,3 kg): Mohsen Mohammadseifi vs Georges Eid

Lightweight (up to 70,3 kg): Mansour Barnaoui defeated Alfie Davis via submission (rear-naked choke) at 3min41s of R3

Heavyweight (up to 120,2 kg): Slim Trabelsi defeated Abraham Bably in the judges' split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)

Featherweight (up to 65,7 kg): Gabriel Braga derrotou Jeremy kennedy in the unanimous decision of the judges (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Featherweight (up to 65,7 kg): Asael Adjoudj defeated Jose Perez by submission (guillotine choke) at 1min10s of R3

Middleweight (up to 89,9kg): Costello van Steenis defeated João Dantas by knockout (kick) 48s into R1