Kaan Ofli

That was an important shift for a fighter whose reputation had long been built on early submissions rather than measured point-fighting.

Key moments

• Ofli won a majority decision after three rounds.
• The fight followed the first-round submission of Ricardo Ramos from October 2025.
• The result set up the Reyes fight as a chance to make it three straight wins.

The finish came in the main event with the HEX featherweight title attached, which made it a strong regional capstone before his eventual move onto The Ultimate Fighter and into the UFC.

Key moments

• The fight reached the third round before Ofli found the finish, which showed he could stay composed deep into a title fight.
• The technical submission was recorded at 2:36 of round three.
• The result also gave him a clean championship-level finish on the Australian circuit.

Ofli returned to action in Melbourne and handled Costa over three rounds, banking a unanimous decision rather than chasing a risky finish.

Key moments

• The fight went the full distance and ended with a unanimous decision for Ofli.
• It marked a successful return after a long layoff from his 2019 outing.
• Costa made Ofli work all three rounds instead of giving up an early opening.

The result stood out because most of his wins in that era came by choke, so this bout showed he could still produce a clean stoppage without needing a submission entry.

Key moments

• The stoppage came at 4:15 of round one.
• Ofli finished Laidi with strikes rather than with one of his usual chokes.
• The win snapped a two-fight stretch that had ended in decisions.
• It became his last fight before the long break into 2021.

Ofli wasted almost no time against MacGregor, taking the back early and finishing the rear-naked choke exactly one minute into the fight.

Key moments

• The rear-naked choke ended the bout at 1:00 of the opening round.
• MacGregor never had time to turn the fight into a longer kickboxing match.
• It reinforced how dangerous he was once he got straight to back-control sequences.

Ofli got back to his strongest pathway in Xi'an, working his way into another back-take and finishing Fujita with a second-round choke.

Key moments

• The finish came in round two after the fight moved past the early feeling-out phase.
• It was Ofli's first victory since the 2015 win over Bayden Mandich.
• The submission re-established the grappling identity that later drove most of his best wins.

Hardman handed Ofli a clean unanimous-decision loss over three rounds and kept him from building on the Mandich win from the year before. The defeat is useful context because it showed Ofli still had trouble dictating longer fights against stronger athletes before his later regional maturation.

Key moments

• The fight lasted all three rounds and ended on the judges' cards.
• Hardman won a unanimous decision in the AFC 16 co-main event.
• The loss left Ofli without a win in back-to-back outings after the Trepca draw.

That upset win was one of the first clear signs that his submission game could trouble better-regarded regional opponents if he could force the fight into close grappling exchanges.

Key moments

• The bulldog choke finish came at 1:37 of round one.
• Mandich was 3-0 going in, so the result read as a meaningful early upset for Ofli.
• It was Ofli's first professional finish after his split-decision loss to Mitch Martin.

After dropping his second pro bout, Ofli answered with a measured unanimous decision over Burghartswieser across three rounds. It was a simple but important stabilizing result because it showed he could reset after the Mitch Martin loss rather than letting the early setback define his start.

Key moments

• The fight went the full distance and ended in a unanimous decision for Ofli.
• It was his first win after the split-decision loss to Mitch Martin.
• Burghartswieser made him work a longer fight instead of giving him an early finish.

Ofli's second professional fight ended in a split-decision loss to Mitch Martin after three competitive rounds in Seaford.

Key moments

• All three rounds were needed before Martin took the split decision.
• It was Ofli's first professional loss after his opening-round debut stoppage of Darcy Baily.
• The narrow scoreline kept the setback from looking like a major collapse.
• He bounced back in his next outing with the unanimous decision over Christian Burghartswieser.