Duško Todorović

The first round was a series of scrambles, and Valentin repeatedly found the dominant position. Todorovic tried to reverse position. Todorovic left his neck exposed while attempting the reversal. Valentin locked up a high-elbow guillotine. Todorovic tapped immediately at 4:14 of round one.

Key moments

• Valentin repeatedly found the dominant position during a scramble-heavy first round.
• Todorovic left his neck open while trying to reverse position.
• Valentin locked up the high-elbow guillotine and Todorovic tapped at 4:14 of round one.

Todorović finally halted the skid by submitting Jose Medina late in the opening round at Noche UFC. The result mattered because it followed back-to-back losses to Mansur Abdul-Malik and Zachary Reese and gave him his first UFC win since the Jordan Wright fight nearly three years earlier.

Key moments

• Submitted Medina with a rear-naked choke at 4:21 of round one.
• The finish ended Todorović's two-fight skid entering late 2025.
• It was his first UFC win since the October 2022 stoppage of Jordan Wright.

Reese took Todorović the distance and won a unanimous decision in a fight Todorović needed badly. The loss mattered because it came after the Mansur Abdul-Malik stoppage and left him without a UFC win for more than two and a half years.

Key moments

• Dropped a unanimous decision to Reese after fifteen minutes.
• The loss followed the first-round stoppage against Mansur Abdul-Malik.
• It pushed Todorović to five losses in his previous six UFC appearances.

Abdul-Malik caught Todorović early and ended the fight with knees and punches before the three-minute mark. That result is useful context because it showed the volatility of Todorović's style had not gone away even after the long gap from the Christian Leroy Duncan injury loss.

Key moments

• Abdul-Malik finished Todorović at 2:44 of the first round.
• The defeat was Todorović's fourth loss in his last five UFC fights at the time.
• It set up the following May's decision loss to Zachary Reese.

The Duncan fight ended in an awkward and abrupt first-round injury stoppage, extending Todorović's uneven UFC stretch instead of letting him build off the Jordan Wright win.

Key moments

• Lost to Duncan by first-round TKO after a knee injury at 1:52.
• The result came directly after Todorović had stopped Jordan Wright in October 2022.
• It left him 2-4 across his previous six UFC bouts at that stage.

Todorović answered the Chidi Njokuani knockout by wearing down Jordan Wright and finishing with punches and elbows in round two. The win mattered because it was the one clean reminder in the middle of his UFC turbulence that the pressure-and-finishing version of his game was still there when he could force the right exchanges.

Key moments

• Stopped Wright at 3:12 of the second round.
• The finish earned Fight of the Night honors.
• It snapped the two-fight skid that had included Chidi Njokuani and Gregory Rodrigues.

The loss mattered because it closed a back-and-forth round with a clean elbow knockout and sent Todorović to a second straight defeat.

Key moments

• Njokuani knocked Todorović out with an elbow at 4:48 of the opening round.
• The defeat followed Todorović's unanimous-decision loss to Gregory Rodrigues earlier in 2021.
• It completed a two-fight skid before Todorović rebounded against Jordan Wright in October 2022.

Rodrigues handed Todorović a clear unanimous-decision loss over three rounds in the Brazilian's UFC debut. The result mattered because it denied Todorović a bounce-back performance after the Soriano stoppage and started the roughest stretch of his UFC tenure.

Key moments

• Dropped a unanimous decision after fifteen minutes with Rodrigues.
• The bout was Todorović's first fight after the January 2021 loss to Punahele Soriano.
• It left him heading into the Maki Pitolo fight needing to halt consecutive defeats.

Todorović wore Townsend down and finished him with second-round punches for his first UFC victory.

Key moments

• Finished Townsend by TKO at 3:15 of round two.
• The bout marked Todorović's first official UFC win.
• It carried him into the January 2021 matchup with Punahele Soriano at 10-0.