Andrey Koreshkov played the hot knife to Chidi Njokuani’s butter.
Appearing for the first time since he surrendered the Bellator MMA welterweight championship to Douglas Lima in November, Koreshkov dispatched Njokuani with first-round ground-and-pound in the Bellator 182 main event on Friday at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York. Punches and elbows polished off Njokuani 4:08 into Round 1.
Koreshkov waded through some early difficulty, as the former Tachi Palace Fights champion attacked his base with a series of lightning-bolt leg kicks to the calf, knee and thigh.