Live, blow-by-blow updates for today’s UFC event in Adelaide, Australia, which is headlined by a heavyweight bout between Junior dos Santos and Tai Tuivasa.
Join us today on Bloody Elbow for live results, discussion, round scoring and play-by-play as UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa takes place in Adelaide, Australia.
The headliner comes in the heavyweight division, where Tai Tuivasa will look to extend his good run in the UFC thus far against former champion Junior dos Santos.
Today’s event is in Australia, but will coincide with regular Fight Night times. Live results and play-by-play will commence with the Fight Pass broadcast at 7pm ET/4pm PT for two fights. The event will flip to FS1 more prelims starting at 8pm ET, and continue there for the full main card which goes down at 10pm ET. The full lineup and schedule follows.
Check out this week’s MMA Vivisection for predictions, analysis and betting odds on the each matchup.
Mizuto Hirota vs. Christos Giagos
Round 1 –
Damir Ismagulov vs. Alex Gorgees
Round 1 – Ismagulov with a leg kick. Gorgees slaps his opponent. They trade big rights. Another right hook from Ismagulov. Gorgees with a head kick. Islamgulov ties him up and gets a trip takedown. Gorgee manages to get up after a minute or so, but Ismagulov stays on him. They battle on the cage and Ismagulov almost gets another trip takedown. Gorgees stays up though, and lands a few elbows. They reset. Ismagulov connects with a right again. 10-9 Ismagulov.
Round 2 – Ismagulov connects with two rights straight off the bat. He looks for a takedown but gets stuffed. He can’t stop the second one though, and Ismagulov gets him to the floor after landing a nice shot. Gorgees is trying to strike from underneath but he’s being pinned down in half guard. Ismagulov gets some control time and then backs out to his feet. He jumps back in with a right, in full guard now. Gorgees is talking trash still. 10-9 Ismagulov.
Round 3 – Spinning back kick to the gut from Ismagulov. He looks for a Showtime kick, and is trying lots of fancy stuff. They clown around a bit. Ismagulov gets an easy double leg takedown. He catches Gorgees with a right as he gets up. Ismagulov looks for another takedown but Gorgees deftly evades it. He steps back, then gets a body lock takedown instead. More half guard work. He’s trying to trap one of Gorgee’s arms to open up the striking game, but can’t. The ref warns them for inactiviy. Some rights from Ismagulov. Gorgees is flat on his back. Ismagulov backs out and basically lets him to his feet with 25 seconds to go. Right from Ismagulov and he ducks under for another takedown. They brawl in close to the horn. 10-9 and 30-27 Ismagulov.
Damir Ismagulov defeated Alex Gorgees via unanimous decision (30-25, 30-26, 30-26)
Main card (10pm ET)
Junior dos Santos vs. Tai Tuivasa
Shogun Rua vs. Tyson Pedro
Suman Mokhtarian vs. Sodiq Yusuff
Prelims (8pm ET)
Yushin Okami vs. Alexey Kunchenko
Keita Nakamura vs. Salim Touahri
Elias Garcia vs. Kai Kara-France
Fight Pass Card (7pm ET)