UFC 279 LIVE: Diaz vs Ferguson and Chimaev vs Holland fight results tonight
Re-live updates from a drastically-reworked fight card at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena
Nate Diaz exited the UFC with a submission victory on Saturday, beating fellow fan favourite Tony Ferguson in the final fight of his UFC contract.
Diaz had been scheduled to take on the UFC’s fastest-rising star, Khamzat Chimaev, in the main event of UFC 279, but Chimaev weighed in seven-and-a-half pounds over the welterweight limit, causing the card to be drastically reworked. American Diaz ultimately took on compatriot Ferguson, who was originally due to face Li Jingliang. The Chinaman instead fought Daniel Rodriguez, whose original opponent Kevin Holland went up against Chimaev.
Diaz and Chimaev both emerged as submission winners from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with 37-year-old Diaz forcing Ferguson, 38, to tap out to a guillotine choke in the fourth round, after Chimaev had submitted Holland with a D’Arce choke in the co-main event. “I outdid everybody on pay, I outdid everybody on surviving,” Diaz reflected on his UFC career in his post-fight interview. “I wanna get out [of] the UFC for a minute and show all these other fighters how to own up another sport. Then I’m gonna be right back here to get a motherf*****g UFC title.” Re-live updates from UFC 279 below.
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Nate Diaz submits Tony Ferguson at UFC 279 after Chimaev runs through Kevin Holland
The card at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena had to be drastically reworked after Chimaev missed weight for his scheduled clash with Diaz
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Ferguson: “That s*** was wild now. I’m gonna be real, it’s been an honour to come in here and fight for you fans. No bull****, Joe [Rogan, interviewer], that was fun.”
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Diaz: “I outdid everybody on pay, I outdid everybody on surviving. I wanna get out the UFC for a minute and show all these other fighters how to own up another sport.
“Then I’m gonna be right back here to get a motherf*****g UFC title.”
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Diaz: “Full-blown wrestling fight camp [for Chimaev], no boxing. So, we made that happen [tonight]...”
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Plenty of respect shown by Ferguson.
Nate Diaz def. Tony Ferguson via fourth-round submission (guillotine choke, 2:52).
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Diaz vs Ferguson – Round 4
Ferguson hammers an inside leg kick into Diaz’s left thigh. Diaz catches Ferguson on the end of a southpaw one-two.
Ferguson burrows a left hook into the midriff of Diaz, who responds with his own body shots and a flurry of punches to the head, too.
Ferguson with a double-leg takedown off the fence in response... but Diaz immediately catches him in a guillotine choke!
Ferguson taps!!!
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