Gustavo Oliveira sends opponent to shadow realm with brutal spinning elbow
By Tyler Reed

Nothing will get the boys more fired up than a brutal knockout during a day of watching the fights, and fans have a knockout that could be a candidate for best of the year.
Gustavo Oliveira picked up the win a first round win over Anas Azizoun at PFL Europe 2, with an absolutely brutal spinning elbow.
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KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR?? 🇵🇹😳
— PFL Europe (@PFLEurope) July 5, 2025
Gustavo Oliviera sleeps Anas Azizoun with a nasty spinning elbow!#PFLBrussels | LIVE NOW
LIVE on DAZN | 🇺🇸 Streaming on The PFL App pic.twitter.com/cmzX5NIhIW
Just an absolute thing of art by Oliveira in the first round knockout that has already gone viral. It was the 11th victory in Oliveira's career.
HELLBOW! 🎥
— PFL Europe (@PFLEurope) July 5, 2025
An alternate angle of THAT spinning elbow from Gustavo Oliveira!#PFLBrussels | LIVE NOW
LIVE on DAZN | 🇺🇸 Streaming on The PFL App pic.twitter.com/7b4UhU6zeh
PFL Europe's official X account shared another angle of the devastating knockout delivered at the hands of Oliveira. It can't be fun to be on the receiving end of one of the most brutal knockouts of the year. However, if it's going to happen, one might as well want to go out in style.
Every time I see a spinning knockout, it takes me back to Shonie Carter delivering the most on the money spinning backfist knockout to Matt Serra in the UFC.
Watching the clip of Oliveira's elbow over and over again is such a great reminder as to why I will never step foot in the cage to fight another human. No matter what kind of money is being thrown my way. Well, give me one million and I'll think about it.
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