Henry Corrales just knocked out talented prospect Aaron Pico in just 67 in the Bellator 214 co-main event. Corrales had to overcome being dropped in the opening moments of the fight, and his toughness held up. As Pico looked to pour on the punishment with some dirty boxing, Corrales unleashed a right hand that nuked Pico. Wow oh wow oh wow! Check out Shakiel Mahjouri’s play-by-play of Henry Corrales finish of Aaron Pico: Round 1 - A great body kick for Pico to get us started. Pico immediately presses the action. Corrales is content staying on the outside. Corrales whiffs on a few leg kicks. Pico counters Corrales with an earth-shattering uppercut that drops him! Pico rushes forward but Corrales gets to his feet. Corrales finds a way to survive the onslaught. The two begin exchanging in the clinch. Pico is digging to the body with uppercuts. Corrales land a wicked right hook! Forget earth-shattering, that was universe-destroying! Pico is out on his feet, teeters back and drops to the floor. Corrales even managed to sneak in another right-left combination as Pico toppled over. Corrales just dished out a highlight-reel KO to Bellator’s highlight-reel KO machine. Henry Corrales defeats Aaron Pico via knockout at 1:07 of round 1<doc-sep>INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Most fighters on the wrong end of a knockout, much less a young fighter who just got knocked out for the first time, aren’t in any real rush to go face the media afterwards. Aaron Pico is not your ordinary fighter. The highly touted Southern California featherweight got caught by Henry Corrales in the co-feature bout of Bellator 214 on Saturday night, capping as frenetic a 67-second stretch of fighting as you’ll ever see. But there was Pico at the podium during the post-fight press conference at The Forum, saying this was all a part of the game. “That’s just what you do,” Pico said. “When you win the media is always here, when you win. And you have to show your respect, you can’t just be coming out when things are good. When the shit hits the fan, you gotta be a man.” Pico also wasn’t coming out to make any excuses for the loss. Pico dropped Corrales with an uppercut to the jaw and rushed in to finish. Instead, Corrales found his way to his feet, and after a wild dirty-boxing exchange, Corrales caught Pico flush with a wicked overhand right which ended the fight. “There’s really no excuses to make,” Pico said. “I felt good out there. My training camp went well. I hit him. I think I have so much power in my hands, I don’t realize I knock people down. It happened so fast. Obviously I made a mistake by staying in the pocket too long. It’s a 50/50 chance of somebody getting knocked out. That sucks, it sucks bad. But hey, I’m 22 years old, I don’t have this figured out yet. It’s something that needs to be slowed down for me. I need to use my wrestling a little bit more and we’ll go from there. We’ll go back to the drawing board.” Pico has world-class wrestling skills, but he’s also had all six of his fights end in the first round, and all four of his victories were via knockout. So with all his fights ending in furious fashion, he’s never had a chance to utilize those skills. Pico is starting to recognize that he’s going to have to slow the pace a bit. “I just need to take my time,” Pico said. “I haven’t gotten to use my wrestling because I’ve been knocking all these people out, but it’s a learning lesson against these veterans, they’re able to endure the shots and find their spots and weather the storm a little bit.” Indeed, with hindsight being 20/20, Pico was asked more than once at the press conference if perhaps he’s been pushed a little too fast. Corrales, after all, is a high-level competitor from the famed MMA Lab who was in his 20th pro fight Saturday night and has now won five consecutive fights. But Pico’s having none of that. He’s had six pro fights, but he believes if he was fighting others with a similar amount of ring time, it would be bad news for those opponents. “Do we take lesser opponents? Okay, give me a lesser opponent. There’s going to be a hefty hospital bill, because I will really f*cking hurt somebody bad. That’s for me personally, I will hurt somebody that’s the same record as me. I will literally hurt them.” At the end of the day, while Pico, who lost his pro debut before rattling off a four-fight win streak, showed maturity in simply showing up to face the music in front of the media, it still doesn’t lessen the sting of defeat. “I f*cking hate to lose,” Pico said. “I hate to lose, it’s that simple, whether it’s my pro debut or for a world title or whether it’s just a regular guy, that’s why it hurts so much. There’s a lot of stuff that goes into it, you know?”<doc-sep>Aaron Pico's path to become the youngest world champion in history just hit a serious roadblock. The 22-year-old super prospect was knocked out cold in just 67 seconds by veteran Henry Corrales on Saturday at Bellator 214, violently preventing Pico from a victory that likely would have lifted him to a featherweight title shot. The 145-pound co-main event was wild from the outset as both fighters hit the floor. But it was a short right hand from the clinch by Corrales (17-3) that stunned the crowd at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Pico (4-2), a native of Whittier, California, who was signed by Bellator while still in high school, was considered the greatest prospect in the sport's history when he suffered a shocking upset loss via submission in his 2017 pro debut at New York's Madison Square Garden. This loss, however, was far more disastrous as Pico's trademark aggressiveness proved to be his undoing. After Corrales was floored early by a right uppercut, the 32-year-old instantly regained his feet and forced Pico into a brawl from the clinch. His short right hand caught Pico flush on the chin and Corrales added a two-punch combo as Pico, who was already unconscious, fell backwards. Referee Jason Herzog instantly jumped in to wave the fight off at 1:07 of the opening round. "At my best, I have lived a mediocre life and I'm ready to die in the f---ing ring," Corrales said. "What's done is done. Respect to Pico and all his people in the crowd. Who the f--- is next? I'm ready for that belt!" The victory was the fifth straight for Corrales since he was submitted by current Bellator featherweight champion Patricio "Pitbull" Freire in a fight Corrales took on short notice. "That's five straight since joining the MMA Lab," Corrales said. "I got my shit together out there in the desert in Arizona and there's no going back for me. I'm f---ing going after the belt." Pico left the cage immediately after the knockout and did not speak to the media.<doc-sep>
Aaron Pico was humble after his second loss in pro MMA on Saturday night. Pico was knocked out by Henry Corrales in the co-main event of Bellator 214, which took place at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Pico hurt Corrales early in the first round, but was too aggressive and stayed in the pocket for too long. Moments later, Corrales landed a right shot, putting the 22-year-old out cold. When speaking with reporters after the fight, Pico recognized he had made a mistake, and chalked it up to inexperience. In a later Instagram post, Pico called it a “rookie mistake.” “It was a hard night for me,” Pico said at the post-fight press conference. ... “There’s really no excuses to make. “Obviously, I made a mistake by staying in the pocket for so long. ... That’s just me being young. I thought I was just gonna hit him again. But that’s where Henry’s good. We knew we needed to stay out of that position. He likes to be in the clinch, throwing those bombs and uppercuts. It’s a learning process. But yeah, I thought I was gonna knock him out.” Pico said he felt confident on the feet because of his four consecutive first-round knockouts, but added that he plans to wrestle more in the future. He said on Instagram he should have taken Corrales to the ground. “It sucks. It sucks bad,” Pico said of the loss. “But hey, I’m 22 years old. I don’t have this figured out yet. It’s something that needs to slow down for me. “Obviously, I have a lot of power in my hands, but wait till they see my wrestling. My wrestling is on a different level. ... My skills are there. I just need to take my time.” Asked whether the weight cut may have played an impact on his performance, Pico said nothing went wrong in the lead-up to the fight, from training to his diet. He simply got caught. “Everything is going well with my training,” Pico said. “Everything is on point: my meal prep is good, my coaching is good. It’s just a little simple mistake, getting hit in the head. There’s not much to say.”