Mateusz Rębecki

Rebecki closed the distance quickly, dragged Prepolec to the mat and controlled his legs there. From that position he simply kept working, battering Prepolec with unanswered strikes until the referee had seen enough at 4:41 of the first.

Key moments

• Rebecki closed distance early and took Prepolec down.
• He controlled the legs and kept top position throughout.
• Unanswered ground strikes brought the stoppage at 4:41 of round one.

Rębecki stayed competitive in a close three-round fight with Klein, but the decision went against him and extended his uneven UFC stretch. Even in defeat, the bout reinforced the same pattern: he is dangerous in exchanges, but not always efficient enough to win the margins over disciplined opposition.

Key moments

• Dropped a majority decision to Ludovit Klein over three rounds.
• The fight earned another Fight of the Night bonus for Rębecki.
• It gave him back-to-back decision losses before the Dawson bout.

Rębecki's war with Orolbai became one of the year's defining action fights, with both men forcing wild scrambles and punishing exchanges. Rębecki edged the split decision in a catchweight thriller and left Abu Dhabi with the kind of credibility boost that only comes from surviving a fight like that.

Key moments

• Beat Myktybek Orolbai by split decision in a 160 lb catchweight bout.
• The fight earned Fight of the Night and was widely treated as one of 2024's best UFC wars.
• It snapped the damage from the Carlos Diego Ferreira loss.

Rębecki started fast and gave Ferreira plenty to handle, but the veteran survived the early storm and turned the fight late. Ferreira's third-round finish was a costly setback because it exposed how much energy Rębecki sometimes has to burn to keep his preferred pace.

Key moments

• Was stopped by Carlos Diego Ferreira at 4:51 of round three in St. Louis.
• Rębecki won much of the early fight before fading late against the veteran.
• It was his first loss inside the UFC.

Once he got the fight to the mat, he transitioned quickly to the armbar and collected his third straight UFC win.

Key moments

• Rębecki submitted Roosevelt Roberts with an armbar at 3:08 of round one.
• Roberts stepped in after Nurullo Aliev withdrew from the event.
• The fight went ahead at catchweight after Roberts missed the lightweight limit.

Rębecki's second UFC outing turned into a showcase of his pressure and durability, as he weathered Radzhabov's bursts before breaking him down in round two.

Key moments

• Rębecki stopped Loik Radzhabov at 2:36 of round two.
• The bout proceeded at catchweight after Radzhabov came in heavy.
• It was Rębecki's first finish inside the UFC.

Rębecki needed less than a minute to blast through Vargas and reinforce how far ahead of the FEN field he had become. The knockout was another title defense and another reminder that his fights in Poland were increasingly ending before they really began.

Key moments

• Rębecki knocked out Jose Barrios Vargas at 0:48 of round one.
• The bout was another defense of the FEN lightweight championship.
• He also picked up a Knockout of the Night bonus for the performance.

Kopera gave Rębecki rounds to solve, but once the champion found the timing again he ended the fight early in the third. The stoppage marked his first title defense and helped show that his body-shot-heavy offense and pressure translated well over longer championship fights too.

Key moments

• Rębecki stopped Lukasz Kopera at 0:52 of round three.
• The victory was his first defense of the FEN lightweight championship.
• The performance also earned him a Fight of the Night bonus in FEN.

Rębecki announced himself as FEN's new lightweight champion with a sustained, punishing performance that ended on a body-shot knockout in the fourth round. Winning the vacant belt in that fashion was the start of the reign that eventually carried him to the UFC.

Key moments

• Rębecki knocked out Marian Ziolkowski with a body shot at 3:49 of round four.
• The win earned him the vacant FEN lightweight championship.
• He also collected a Knockout of the Night bonus for the title-winning finish.

Rębecki's FEN debut ended with a first-round armbar and gave an early glimpse of how complete his finishing game already was. It was also the performance that started his long relationship with the promotion he would eventually dominate as champion.

Key moments

• Rębecki submitted Jacek Kreft with an armbar at 4:12 of round one.
• The bout was his first appearance under the FEN banner.
• He earned a Submission of the Night bonus for the finish.

Tyrlya became the second straight opponent Rębecki submitted with a first-round heel hook, a sign that his preferred finishing patterns were already well developed. The quick win kept his professional start perfect through two outings.

Key moments

• Rębecki tapped Semen Tyrlya with a heel hook at 1:55 of round one.
• It was his second professional victory.
• The finish continued his early all-submission start.