Former UFC Featherweight Championship contender Chad Mendes successfully returned to his career after a three-year hiatus by defeating Joshua Alvarez in a fistfight at BKFC: KnuckleMania 2.
Mendez quickly took the initiative in the match and showed a dominant performance, knocking down the opponent in the second, third, and three times in the fourth round. After Alvarez fell for the fifth time, the referee stopped the fight, fixing Mendez’s victory by technical knockout.
Chad Mendes got a knockdown in the second round of his BKFC debut ? #Knucklemania2
(via @FiteTV) pic.twitter.com/o65xW4uzbk
— MMAFighting.com (@MMAFighting) February 20, 2022
.@chadmendes records another knockdown in round 3! #KnuckleMania2 pic.twitter.com/ZQXP9lPdpz
— FITE (@FiteTV) February 20, 2022
Chad Mendes finishes recording artist Famez #BKFC debut: pic.twitter.com/u4JU2cPg12
— Trevor Ritchie (@ritchietmr) February 20, 2022
Recall that the 36-year-old Chad Mendes had his last fight in the UFC in December 2018, losing by technical knockout in the second round to Alexander Volkanovski.
