Sean Strickland v Dricus Du Plessis, Raquel Pennington v Mayra Bueno Silva – UFC 297 LIVE

Another unpopular decision. The biggest win of his career. The striking in the early rounds got him the nod.

Katona with a nice early left hook and then got a takedown with an arm hook. He then controlled the next two minutes before Armfield broke the hold. After each landed a few blows, Katona again had Armfield locked up this time taking the right knee of his opponent. Katona’s round. It all comes down to who won that first.

Armfield starts quickly with a variety of strikes and bloodies Katona’s nose. Both landed shots throughout but Armfield’s shots the cleaner and his defence superior. He also landed with a good left kick to the forehead. Katona took Armfield down in the last 30 seconds and held him against the Octagon. Clearly Armfield’s round.

After a lot of shimmying and feinting from both fights, Katona landed a kick smack in the middle of Armfield’s groin and he took a minute for himself to recover. Not a round which had the crowd roaring. Katona may have just taken the round.

Sean Strickland is in the building.

Brad Katona (15-2) fights American Garrett Armfield (9-3) in the feature prelim bout.

She faces Mayro Bueno Silva in the Bantamweight title fight later tonight.

Woodson extends his unbeaten run to five wins, once more the crowd are unhappy about it. Woodson initially thought he lost.

Jourdain had a double leg with his hips against the Octagon but Woodson is tougher to hold onto than an octopus. Sublime defensive skills from Woodson but did he do enough offensively to win? Even when he landed they were mostly clipping shots. Jourdain tried a late guillotine attempt but the escapologist escaped once more.

Jourdain starts early with a body shot then left kick to the head. He hooks a leg but can’t bring Woodson down. Jourdain lands a spinning elbow and a late head kick which will get him the round.

Woodson a box of tricks with his 6’3″ physique in a featherweight build, constantly switching and constantly moving hands and he lands a few straight shots but Jourdain’s leg kicks made their mark and he also lands a good left hand at the mid point. But Woodson’s defence stops the home fighter landing too much and towards the end of the round he landed with some body shots and a knee. A close round.

Canadian Charles ‘Air’ Jourdain (15-6-1) meets Sean ‘The Sniper Woodson (10-1-1).

Each decision 29-28, two in favour of Taveras. The crowd don’t like that. What will Dana White’s reaction be? He ordered the rematch after not liking the stoppage in the first fight, he might order a third now. Taveras apologises for missing weight by four pounds.

Taveras began the third better with leg kicks and counter left hands. Sidey landed a knee to the body then left hand turned it in the mid point. The fight was still up for grabs as the fight went into the last minute but neither made a big impression so Sidey’s extra work rate maube got him the win. What a rematch. A rubber match anyone?

Sidey with a right hand wobbles Taveras early in the round and also landed with right kicks, but missed with attempted show stopping knees. A delayed one-two saw Sidey go to the mat and left the Ukrainian with a crimson mask. But Sidey kept going forward and a left to the body hurt the American and landed numerous left hooks upstairs, then elbows in close. A great round from Sidey after having his nose broken and hitting the canvas.

Sidey couldn’t miss with his lead left hand early, but Taveras caught him with a couple of counter shots to the body which left their mark and then landed with a couple of big lefts with a minutes left in the round. Just on the buzzer, Taveras caught Sidey with a huge right hand which had the Ukrainian wobbling back and just avoiding going to the canvas. Taveras takes the round.

Two men who could do some damage in this division. Ontario-based Ukrainian Serhiy Sidey (10-1) fights American Ramon Taveras (9-2). Sidey stopped Taveras at UFC Contender Series 61 in what Dana White called “one of the worst ref stoppages” he’d seen, so the boss has told them to go again, this time at the big event.

Another early takedown by Robertson leads to some ground and pound and this time she shut down her opponent and with nothing coming back and Viana defenceless, the referee signalled an end to the bout.

Robertson brings Viana to the mat early with a single-leg takedown and the action remained their through the round with an arm triangle applied in the last two minutes. Viana showed great resilience to get to her feet in the last 30 seconds and slam Robertson.

A strawweight bout between Gillian ‘The Savage’ Robertson (12-8) from down the road at Niagara Falls against Brazilian Polyana Viana (13-6) begins the preliminary card.

‘The Future’ made Yohan Lainesse tap within two minutes of their fight.

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Dana White says he will announce next week where and when Leon Edwards will make the first defence of his title.

Arnold ‘Almighty’ Allen fights tonight, at around 3am, facing a tough test in unbeaten featherweight Movsar Evloev.

Headlined by the middleweight title fight in what is likely to be the grudge match of the year as Sean Strickland fights Dricus Du Plessis.

Thanks for joining us for this UFC event in Toronto. I’m Ciaran Baynes and I’ll be following tonight’s action with you tonight.

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Live coverage starts at 01:00 in the UK.

• Chris Curtis v Marc-Andre Barriault
• Brad Katona v Garrett Armfield
• Charles Jourdain v Sean Woodson
• Serhiy Sidey v Ramon Taveras
• Gillian Robertson v Polyana Viana

• Sean Strickland v Dricus Du Plessis
• Raquel Pennington v Mayra Bueno Silva
• Neil Magny v Mike Malott
• Dominick Reyes v Carlos Ulberg
• Arnold Allen v Movsar Evloev

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