This is the UFC 327 live blog for Cub Swanson vs. Nate Landwehr, the main card featherweight bout Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami.<\/p>\n
Swanson (30-14) makes his final walk to the octagon as he previously announced this will be his retirement bout after a 22-year pro MMA career. A star in the still-revered WEC, \u201cKiller Cub\u201d proved to be no less popular when he made the jump to the UFC, where he compiled a 15-10 record, with wins over the likes of Charles Oliveira, Dustin Poirier, Jeremy Stephens, and Doo Ho Choi. The 42-year-old is an eight-time Fight of the Night winner and hopes to add one more to the collection when he takes on Landwehr, a veteran also known for exciting brawls.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t expect Landwehr (18-7) to just rollover for the departing Swanson. In 10 UFC appearances, Landwehr has proven he can play the hammer just as well as the nail and if the moment and if he sees an opportunity to spoil Swanson\u2019s going-away party, he\u2019ll jump on it with his trademark Tennessee aggression.<\/p>\n
Check out the UFC 327 live blog for Cub Swanson vs. Nate Landwehr below.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time for Cub\u2019s swan song.<\/p>\n
This one is close, but even on his way out, Swanson is slightly favored at -130 on FanDuel. Landwehr currently +108.<\/p>\n
Referee Herb Dean is the third man for the main card opener.<\/p>\n
Swanson looking bouncy as ever at 42. He\u2019s throwing out jabs and low kicks, inviting Landwehr to come to him. Landwehr backing up against the fence, Swanson finding openings to land. Not much in response from Landwehr as Swanson pushes the pace. Maybe he shouldn\u2019t retire! Kidding, kidding.<\/p>\n
\u201cKiller Cub\u201d throwing bombs in there. He does not look like he\u2019s content to settle for a decision tonight. A Swanson punch has Landwehr rocked and Swanson follows up, Landwehr stumbling around. Somehow, he recovers. Plenty of time for Cub to find a finish here.<\/p>\n
More punches from Cub and a right hand has Landwehr on wobbly legs. Dean steps in to call it off. Emotional finish.<\/p>\n
And there go the gloves. No going back now, this is really the end for the legendary Cub Swanson.<\/p>\n
Joe Rogan nearly in tears as he introduces Swanson for his final post-fight interview.<\/p>\n
Swanson: \u201cI\u2019ve been doing this a long time, I\u2019m terrified every time I come out here, but try to be brave and just focus and I\u2019m so proud that I was able to accomplish that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the UFC 327 live blog for Cub Swanson vs. Nate Landwehr, the main card featherweight bout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-601174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}