LIVE: Hometown fighter booed by local fans

Ryan Spann with an unthinkable performance, and we person yet different archetypal circular stoppage!

Good grief, that was brutal from the 31-year-old - Dominick Reyes is nary slouch, but helium had nary accidental against that almighty near hand.

"That dude's got immoderate powerfulness man, the information level is truthful precocious with him early, it's crazy," Daniel Cormier said connected commentary.

It's the 15th first-round decorativeness of Spann's career.

"Oh my goodness, that is brainsick power," Joe Rogan added aft seeing the replay. 

It's precise uncommon that you spot a combatant booed successful their location town, but that was what Erin Blanchfield conscionable went through.

"It felt truly good, and I deliberation that was worthy 50k close there," she said post-fight.

She dominated the full 3 and a fractional minutes against the fashionable Englishwoman Molly McCann, and chants for the second rapidly dissipated arsenic Blanchfield took her down and launched a staggering fig of blows to McCann's head.

"I was decidedly amazed they didn't halt it [earlier]," Blanchfield said.

"I was throwing truthful galore punches, caught a fewer elbows - she was inactive moving, she wasn't wholly laid out, but it astir apt could person been stopped a spot earlier."

The 23-year-old is 1 of the rising stars of the flyweight division, and is undefeated successful 4 fights since joining the UFC past year.

Such is the popularity of 'Meatball" Molly McCann that the Englishwoman was roundly cheered by the New York City crowd, contempt going up against a hometown fighter.

But Erin Blanchfield ignored the pre-bout boos and acceptable astir an perfectly objective performance, getting a takedown successful the opening infinitesimal and putting a brutal beatdown connected McCann earlier yet finishing it with a kimura submission.

"She is dominating Molly, she's that good," Daniel Cormier said.

After rotating betwixt a bid of crushed strikes and submission holds, she yet secured the triumph with a 90 seconds to spell successful the first. 

"When radical don't pat from kimuras, it's the scariest happening ... present she's got the limb over, delight tap," Joe Rogan begged astatine ringside.

The aboriginal prelim slate got disconnected to a bang with Ulberg, and finished conscionable arsenic impressively arsenic Matt Frevola needed conscionable 2 and a fractional minutes to get the triumph implicit Ottman Azaitar.

The 32-year-old has enactment the lightweight part connected announcement with immoderate brutal punches, his 2nd consecutive triumph successful the archetypal round.

'The Steamrolla' cheekily posted a Twitter canvass yesterday asking fans whether helium should wrestle oregon propulsion strikes, and with the second winning, helium duly obliged.

Kiwi combatant Carlos Ulberg has started the time brightly for the hefty New Zealand contingent successful New York, scoring a archetypal circular KO triumph implicit Romanian Nicolae Negumereanu.

One of 4 fighters coming retired of the fabled City Kickboxing gym successful Auckland that's warring connected this card, a barrage of punches sent Negumereanu to the canvas with conscionable implicit a infinitesimal near successful the archetypal round.

His stablemate Israel Adesanya volition of people support his middleweight rubric aboriginal today.