UFC 271 Early Prelims Highlights! More live results

Benny A. King

UFC couldn’t have started better.

The early prelims showcased some great fights and great finishes as well.

To open the night, Maxim Grishin got a decision victory over Willaim Knight.

At the second fight of the night, Jeremiah Wells put a stop to Blood Diamond’s hype train by submitting him in the very first round.

Following that, Douglas Silva de Andrade and Sergey Morozov performed a fight that is already in contention for the ‘Fight of the Night’ bonus.

Andrade endured a lot of punishment in the first round, he survived a vicious knockdown and a nasty cut, to perform a movie-like comeback in the second, by rocking Morozov with strikes and finishing him with a rear-naked choke.

Then, Jacob Malkoun earned a decision victory over AJ Dobson, Malkoun also was able to come back stronger after facing adversity in the first round of the fight.

And to close the Early Prelims, Ronnie Lawrence beat Mana Martinez by a decision in another action-packed fight.

Martinez endured a beating for almost the entirety of the fight but at the very end of the third round, he was almost able to perform an amazing comeback when he dropped Lawrence with punches and then almost submitted him with a tight armbar.

The prelims are about to start, and the bar couldn’t have been set higher by the early prelims.