This is the UFC 170 live blog for Daniel Cormier vs. Patrick Cummins, a light heavyweight bout at Saturday night’s UFC event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nev.
Cormier, who has won both his UFC fights, will face Cummins, who will be making his UFC debut, on the main card.
Check out the UFC 170 live blog below.
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Round 1: The referee in charge of the action is Mario Yamasaki. No touch of gloves. Cummins lands an outside leg kick. Cormier stuffs a takedown and scores a crushing uppercut. Cummins is trying to shoot over and over and Cormier is stopping, tagging him in transition and Cummins is hurt. Badly. Cummins eats a right hand and slumps to the mat. Cormier gets behind him and is just annihilating him with strikes. Cummins goes face first and the referee stops the fight.
Daniel Cormier def. Pat Cummins via TKO (strikes) at 1:19 of round 1