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Highlights! Carlston Harris survives two-round beatdown, submits Jeremiah Wells with awesome comeback | UFC Nashville

UFC Fight Night: Wells v Harris Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

Carlston Harris scored the biggest win of his UFC career tonight (Sat., Aug. 5, 2023) at UFC Nashville, which took place inside Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn, when he put Jeremiah Wells to sleep in the third round with a nasty anaconda choke.

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Harris was getting absolutely dominated in every aspect of the fight for 11 minutes until he locked up his infamous anaconda choke and put Wells to sleep. The fighter from Guyana became the first person to defeat Wells inside UFC’s Octagon.

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Harris, 36, is now riding a two-fight win streak since he was knocked out by Shavkat Rakhmonov last year at UFC Vegas 47 (watch it), while Wells, 36, had his impressive six-fight win streak snapped and will have to go back to the drawing board.


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