This is the live blog for Mateusz Gamrot vs. Quillan Salkilld, the lightweight main event for Saturday\u2019s UFC Vegas 120 fight card at the newly renovated Meta APEX in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
Gamrot enters the headliner after flip-flopping wins and losses over his past five bouts. In his most recent outing, the former KSW champion submitted Esteban Ribovics with an arm-triangle choke in the second round at UFC 327 in April. This will be Gamrot\u2019s third UFC headliner, going 1-1 in octagon main events with a decision win over Arman Tsarukyan, and suffering a first-round stoppage loss to Charles Oliveira this past October at UFC Rio.<\/p>\n
Salkilld gets his first UFC main event spot after winning his first five bouts inside the octagon. The 26-year-old has stopped four of his five opponents and earning four bonuses \u2014 including his first-round TKO victory against Beneil Dariush at UFC Perth in May.<\/p>\n
Check out the UFC Vegas 120 live blog below.<\/p>\n
According to FanDuel, Quillan Salkilld closes as a slight favorite at -144, while the comeback on Mateusz Gamrot is +122.<\/p>\n
Salkilld is a very fun and skilled fighter with a super bright future at lightweight. He\u2019s looked really good, and he\u2019s shown some low-key fight IQ things that most aren\u2019t able to pick up \u2014 from luring opponents into standup exchanges he wants, and even with his defensive grappling abilities. However, the experience difference concerns me, especially against a guy like Gamrot who has fought the best the division has to offer, and makes very few mistakes.<\/p>\n
Joe Pyfer got his big step-up moment, and got taught a vet lesson by Jack Hermansson \u2014 but one he learned a lot from. I feel as if Salkilld is about to get his first, super valuable UFC lesson to learn handed to him tonight. The pick is Gamrot via submission in Round 3.<\/p>\n
Salkilld out first and is ready to go. Here comes Gamrot to \u201cMy Songs Know What You Did in the Dark\u201d by Fall Out Boy, and the crowd in the newly renovated APEX seems to enjoy it.<\/p>\n
The judges are Mike Bell, Derek Cleary and Sal D\u2019Amato, with Jason Herzog serving as the referee.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re off! They march to the center of the octagon, Gamrot lands a nice counter right hand after Salkilld lands a jab, leg kick as well. Salkilld lands another nice jab and Gamrot shoots a single. Salkilld trying to defend and doing a nice job of it getting in a top position on the ground. Gamrot back to the feet and they clinch against the fence.<\/p>\n
Gamrot going for a heel hook and it looks tight. Salkilld shaking his head, and eventually rolls out of it. Back to the feet they go and Salkilld just misses with a kick. Gamrot, I\u2019m sure, knew he\u2019d have to go through the fire early, and he is. Salkilld shoots a takedown and gets it. Wow! Salkilld going for the back and rear-naked choke, Gamrot scrambles. Salkilld throws his legs up, Gamrot trying to turn in, but Salkilld doing a spectacular job keeping position.<\/p>\n
Salkilld puts the hooks in and locks in the RNC and it\u2019s TIGHT. Gamrot taps! What a performance. Salkilld is for real, for real!<\/p>\n
OFFICIAL RESULT: Quillan Salkilld def. Mateusz Gamrot via submission (RNC) \u2014 Round 1, 4:25<\/p>\n
Post-Fight: Salkilld says the top-5 better watch out while he loves his performance. No callout, but says he wants a top-5 guy \u2014 but there\u2019s just no chance he gets it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the live blog for Mateusz Gamrot vs. Quillan Salkilld, the lightweight main event for Saturday\u2019s UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848650,"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-848731","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\/848731","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=848731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}