Watch Vanhouter\u2019s incredible knockout<\/a><\/p>\nMark Magsayo def. Andres Cortes via unanimous decision (97-93 x3)<\/p>\n
Oswaldo Molina def. Pablo Rubio via unanimous decision (60-54, 59-55 x2)<\/p>\n
Abel Gonzalez def. Raul Solomon via unanimous decision (77-74 x3)<\/p>\n
Vlad Panin def. Dakota Linger via fourth-round TKO (1:22)<\/p>\n
Alexis Rocha def. Jose Ramirez via unanimous decision (98-91 x2, 97-92)<\/p>\n
Sean Garcia def. Abraham Morales via majority decision (56-56, 58-54 x2)<\/p>\n
For more on the Garcia vs. Benn undercard, check out the live blogs below.<\/p>\n
Mark Magsayo vs. Andres Cortes<\/p>\n
Round 1: Good left hook from Cortes to start. Both fighters getting busy early on. Cortes with a right hand, Magsayo wants to answer with a combo but Cortes with good movement. Uppercut inside by Magsayo. Cortes pressuring. He pushes Magsayo to the ropes and starts rifling body shots, referee gives them a moment work before breaking it up. Magsayo with a quick left. Cortes lands a good right. Jab down the middle by Cortes.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 2: Magsayo comes out with some offense, he wants to set the tone this time. Good counter combo from Magsayo. Cortes looking to establish the jab, but Magsayo circling well. Magsayo with fast hands. He goes to the body as Cortes swings high. Magsayo lands a pair of good punches. They\u2019re scrapping. Magsayo with a big counter right, Cortes still coming forward.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Magsayo. Overall, 19-19.<\/p>\n
Round 3: Cortes controlling the ring. There\u2019s a brief clinch and they\u2019re back to trading. Overhand right from Magsayo, followed by a stiff body shot. Cortes lands a hard short right. Magsayo briefly backs Cortes up, Cortes right back in there looking to do damage. Cortes catches Magsayo with another short punch and Magsayo goes to a knee, they\u2019re counting that as a knockdown. On the replay, doesn\u2019t look like Magsayo was actually hurt.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Cortes. Overall, 29-28 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 4: Round begins with commentators clarifying Magsayo was not knocked down. Cortes drives in with a right hand, Magsayo complains about Cortes clinching. He tags Cortes with a lunging right. Lots of chatter. Counter right by Cortes, Magsayo felt that one. Cortes with a hard right inside, the referee talks to both fighters about cleaning it up. Cortes with a glancing right and Magsayo takes a knee again, that will be scored a knockdown.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Cortes. Overall, 39-37 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 5: Nevermind, that \u201cknockdown\u201d in Round 4 has also been wiped off the board. Magsayo keeps ducking his head into Cortes\u2019 body, which is why he keeps losing his balance in close. Otherwise, Magsayo is landing, but now it\u2019s Cortes with the volume advantage. He\u2019s throwing big and landing enough to slow Magsayo. Give it to Magsayo, he\u2019s not backing down, but he\u2019s yet to find his rhythm.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Cortes. Overall, 49-46 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 6: Cortes with a check hook. Jab battle, Magsayo backs him up and lands a right hand. Great footwork from Cortes as he lands while circling out. Magsayo pushes forward with his jab. Cortes with a right hand in close, that punch has been money for him. Magsayo getting battered whenever Cortes gets in range. Cortes on the hunt, Magsayo just not winning these exchanges. He eats a jab and Cortes is cruising.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Cortes. Overall, 59-55 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 7: Magsayo with a good body shot. He can\u2019t keep Cortes out though and another Cortes right scores. Magsayo swinging big, Cortes\u2019 defense holds up. Referee again tells Magsayo to stop ducking into Cortes\u2019 body. Cortes counters Magsayo and again Magsayo goes to a knee for a non-knockdown. Ugh. Magsayo pops Cortes with a right, Cortes counters with a pair of punches and Magsayo almost takes a squat in response. So bizarre. You can tell Cortes and his corner are getting annoyed. Magsayo is landing some nice punches, too, but the body language isn\u2019t great.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Cortes. Overall, 69-64 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 8: Cortes lands that right every time Magsayo\u2019s head dips in. Magsayo fighting like a boxer who is down, though, he fires in a solid series of punches. Left hook by Cortes. Magsayo finding a home for his uppercut. He\u2019s stringing together punches now. Magsayo with another awkward duck-in that ends with him on a knee. Cortes flicking that jab out.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Magsayo. Overall, 78-74 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 9: Magsayo with some tricky movement, Cortes not biting on it. He scores with a couple of lefts. Right hand scrapes Magsayo\u2019s chin. Magsayo to the body. Cortes ducks a wild Magsayo swing, which gets a pop. Cortes just misses with a big left. Magsayo with the uppercut. He goes to the body and comes forward, left hook seems to hurt Cortes. Magsayo is scoring with his uppercuts, too.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Magsayo. Overall, 87-84 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Round 10: Cortes lands a right, but Magsayo is the aggressor now. Lunging right from Cortes catches Magsayo, who answers with a flurry. Cortes gets in with the body work, Magsayo briefly complains of a low blow. He goes to Cortes\u2019 body. Cortes staying steady, advancing with his jab. Not much action to close out the round, Magsayo might have missed his opportunity for a comeback.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Cortes. Overall, 97-93 Cortes.<\/p>\n
Official result: Mark Magsayo def. Andres Cortes via unanimous decision (97-93 x3)<\/p>\n
Raphael Akpejiori vs. Da\u2019Mazion Vanhouter<\/p>\n
Round 1: They meet in the middle with Vanhouter jabbing and Akpejiori going to the body. Vanhouter with a couple of hard rights and it is not looking good for Akpejiori. He\u2019s able to clinch up and gather his senses. Another Vanhouter right lands and Akpejiori goes to a knee. He\u2019s in no hurry to get up, the count gets to 9 and the fight continues. Vanhouter just walking Akpejiori down and throwing heavy leather. Referee keeping a close eye on the action, might have to step in. Whoa, not sure what happened there, but Vanhouter suddenly crumbles against the ropes. There\u2019s a pause in the action and it looks like maybe he hurt his shoulder? Whatever it was, he shakes it off, and the fight resumes and WHAM it\u2019s Vanhouter with a big punch to put Akpejiori on his back. The referee has seen enough and that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n
Official result: Da\u2019Mazion Vanhouter def. Raphael Akpejiori via first-round KO (1:58)<\/p>\n
Jai Opetaia vs. Noel Mikaelian<\/p>\n
Round 1: Both men working to establish the range. Opetaia with the first points on the board as he goes to the body, Mikaelian answering in kind. Opetaia with another straight left body shot. Neither man landing anything substantial so far. Opetaia again to the body, then there\u2019s a clash of heads. Straight left by Opetaia, Mikaelian just evades a right hook. Orthodox vs. southpaw matchup creating some awkward clashes, as expected. Not much to score, but slight edge to the champion.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 2: Opetaia sticking with the body work, Mikaelian aiming for the head and not connecting much just yet. Opetaia scores with a counter right. Mikaelian with punches to the body, trying to loosen the tight defenses of Opetaia. Mikaelian doing a good job of avoiding Opetaia\u2019s power. Nice body work from Opetaia on the inside. Mikaelian hasn\u2019t found a consistent weapon yet. Opetaia scores with a 1-2. Swelling on Opetaia\u2019s left eye from the previous clashes. Mikaelian with a hard right to close out the round.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Opetaia. Overall, 20-18 Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 3: Opetaia and Mikaelian fighting from distance. Mikaelian circling, trying to lure Opetaia into range of his right hand. Opetaia staying ahead on the cards with that body work. Mikaelian sneaks in a right hand, right between Opetaia\u2019s gloves. Good exchange for both men, Mikaelian\u2019s right scoring again. Opetaia tries to steady things with the jab but Mikaelian has controlled range well this round.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Mikaelian. Overall, 29-28 Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 4: Mikaelian lands a couple of right hands out of the gate. Opetaia answers with punches of his own, business is picking up. Another right for Mikaelian. Opetaia catches Mikaelian with a left, but the referee warns Opetaia about holding the back of Mikaelian\u2019s head. Uppercut by Opetaia. He lands with his left and these two are starting to do some damage. Opetaia sticking that jab in Mikaelian\u2019s face. Another warning for Opetaia about holding the head. Mikaelian looking to close the round strong, but Opetaia slows him with a body shot.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Opetaia. Overall, 39-37 Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 5: Opetaia firing from range. They clinch and the referee lets them work, both fighters getting their licks in. At distance, Opetaia is the busier fighter this round. He\u2019s mixing his attacks up well. Mikaelian just a step behind when they\u2019re scrapping in close. Opetaia quicker to the punch inside, but Mikaelian isn\u2019t out of this.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Opetaia. Overall, 49-46 Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 6: Straight left scores for Opetaia. Mikaelian trying to tie up, but Opetaia is punishing him. Not sure if Mikaelian is conserving energy for the final five rounds, because Opetaia is completely in control this round. Mikaelian hits a right as he circles away from the ropes. Opetaia in hot pursuit, probing with his jab. Gnarly clinch work closes this frame.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Opetaia. Overall, 59-55 Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 7: They exchange jabs as Opetaia walks Mikaelian to the corner. Mikaelian circles as Opetaia works to cut off the ring. Hard left from Opetaia. Mikaelian lands a counter right and that looks like it might have hurt Opetaia as he immediately tries to tie Mikaelian up. They get tangled up against the ropes, but the action resumes and Mikaelian wants to keep coming forward. Opetaia ties him up and seems to have regained his bearings. Opetaia lands two good punches. Mikaelian with a quick combination. He lands a right hand. Opetaia cracks Mikaelian with a left. Hard-hitting round.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Mikaelian. Overall, 68-65 Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 8: Good jab work from Opetaia. Mikaelian tries to get in, but eats a counter combo for his troubles. Opetaia with body punches in close but he gets a warning for landing below the belt. Back at it, Opetaia\u2019s left stinging the head and body. Opetaia digging to the body, he likely ekes out an ugly round.<\/p>\n
MMA Fighting scores the round 10-9, Opetaia. Overall, 78-74 Opetaia.<\/p>\n
Round 9: Mikaelian really hasn\u2019t had much success getting out of the way of that left. Still, the champion is staying busy and forcing Mikaelian to react. Opetaia lands a short right inside and Mikaelian is frozen. Three heavy punches follow and the referee steps in for a count, Mikaelian seemingly out on his feet. It doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s all there and the referee waves it off. Definitely the right call.<\/p>\n
Official result: Jai Opetaia def. Noel Mikaelian via ninth-round KO (1:30)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA Fighting has Garcia vs. Benn results for the Ryan Garcia vs. Conor Benn fight card and more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,802,2986,1920,786,1347,785,6654,85],"class_list":["post-890119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-news","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-results","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890119","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=890119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}