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Live, blow-by-blow updates for today’s UFC 244 main card from MSG.
Join us today on Bloody Elbow for live results, discussion, round scoring, and play-by-play as UFC 244 goes down in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The main event will a welterweight battle between Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal for a totally made-up “BMF” belt. The co-main comes at 185 pounds, where Kelvin Gastelum will welcome Darren Till to the division.
This post will cover the four fights on the main card up to the main event.
We’ll start on Fight Pass at approximately 6:30pm ET with three fights. The card then moves to ESPN2 at 8pm ET for four more bouts, then onto the main PPV card at 10pm ET. The full lineup and schedule follows. The prelims and main event will be covered in separate posts.
Derrick Lewis vs. Blagoy Ivanov
Round 1 –
Kevin Lee vs. Gregor Gillespie
Round 1 – They trade jabs. Two rights land for Gillespie. He shoots but gets nowhere. Both land jabs. Lee with a big right. Uppercut from Gillespie. Two jabs land for Lee. They keep jabbing, and landing hard. Lee misses with a head kick. Lee goes to the body. Jab, jab, jab…and a jab. Lee rips the body. Right hook and LEFT HEAD KICK KNOCKS HIM OUT COLD! WOW! He was unconscious as soon as it landed!
Kevin Lee defeated Gregor Gillespie via KO (head kick), 2:47 of round 1
Main card
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Darren Till
Stephen Thompson vs. Vicente Luque