Jay Jay Wilson handed Darragh Kelly the first loss of his career on Thursday, scoring a blistering first-round stoppage at The SSE Arena in Belfast.
Wilson needed just 37 seconds to finish Kelly in Northern Ireland, closing the show in the opening minute after their bout was elevated when Kelly stepped in as a replacement. Wilson had originally been scheduled to face Paul Hughes in the headliner.
After the win, Wilson broke down what happened in the cage. "I knew that he was going to come out and grapple," he said. "My plan was to land some strikes, and I got to land the stuff I was training. I managed to catch him with the hook and win the fight."
Wilson, who now has nine stoppage wins in 12 victories, including six in the first round, immediately turned his attention to his next target. "There's a little Alfie in this division who needs a beating, so Alfie Davis, I'm coming for you in June in San Diego. Let's do it. I'm going to be straight back to training."
Alfie Davis is 20-6-1 and is about 10 weeks removed from a third-round submission loss to lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov in a title fight in Dubai. Before that defeat in February, Davis had put together three straight wins over Clay Collard, Brent Primus and Gadzhi Rabadanov, including a victory over Rabadanov in the PFL 2025 tournament final.
