Ozzy Diaz beats Djorden Santos by unanimous decision
Fans who don’t have the UFC fight pass may have just missed out…
In what was the only early prelim of the night, with barely any fans in the arena, Diaz and Santos went to war in what some fans are calling a fight of year contender.
The Judges scored the contest 29-28 to Ozzy Diaz in a contest that could have gone either way.
UFC 313 opening bout
The first fight of the night is a middleweight fight between Djodren Santos and Ozzy Diaz.
Santos will make his full UFC debut tonight after impressing on Dana White’s Contender series.
His opponent, Diaz, will fight for the second time in the UFC. His previous fight ended in a TKO loss to Mingyang Zhang.
The new fight card running order
Due to the two cancelled bouts, this is the new running order for UFC 313.
- Early prelim
- Djodren Santos vs Ozzy Diaz – Middleweight bout
- Prelims
- Mairon Santos vs Francis Marshall – Featherweight bout
- Alex Morono vs Carlos Leal -Welterweight bout
- Brunno Ferreira vs Armen Petrosyan -Middleweight bout
- New featured prelim – Joshua Van vs Rei Tsuruya – Flyweight bout
- Main card
- King Green vs Maricio Ruffy – Lightweight bout
- Amanda Lemos vs Iasmin Lucindo – Women’s Strawweight bout
- Jalin Turner vs Ignacio Bahaondes – Lightweight bout
- Co-main event – Justin Gaethje vs Rafael Fiziev – Lighweight bout
- Main event – Alex Pereira vs Magomed Ankalaev – Light Heavyweight title bout
Late notice changes
Unfortunately, just hours before the event, the UFC announced that two fights have been cancelled.
Firstly, John Castaneda has pulled out of his fight against Chris Gutierrez due to illness.
The featured prelim of the night, Curtis Blaydes vs Rizvan Kuniev, has been removed from the card because Blaydes has also pulled out due to illness.
We are live!
Welcome to SunSport’s live coverage of UFC 313: Alex Pereira vs Magomed Ankalaev.
We will be covering all of the fights from tonight’s card all throughout the night and the early hours of Sunday morning.
The UFC brings us a huge event in Las Vegas with a stacked fight card that includes two of the biggest UFC superstars, Alex ‘Poatan’ Pereira and Justin ‘The Highlight’ Gaethje.
