Ion Cutelaba Brutalizes Tanner Boser

Tanner
Boser took over two years preparing to drop to light
heavyweight at
UFC on ESPN 44; Ion
Cutelaba took barely two minutes to show him that his new
division is not short on power, either.

Cutelaba (17-9-1) came out in typically aggressive fashion, moving
forward and trying to land big right hands, while Boser (20-10-1)
circled out and looked to counter. Ninety seconds in, the Moldovan
mauler caught Boser with a right that staggered him badly, and from
there the end was not long in coming. “The Hulk” flung Boser down
and threw a torrent of punches as he tried to stand back up. Caught
against the fence and eating a stream of unanswered blows, Boser
was rescued by referee Keith
Peterson, who stopped the mugging at 2 minutes, 5 seconds of
Round 1.

The quick and brutal beating got Cutelaba back on track from a
career-worst three-fight losing streak and lifted his UFC record to
6-8-1.

Boser, who had whittled down from nearly 250 pounds to around 225
since his Octagon debut in 2019 ahead of the move to 205, fell to
4-5 in the promotion.