This is the UFC 331 live blog for Gable Steveson vs. Sean Sharaf, the main card heavyweight bout Saturday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The undefeated Steveson (4-0) made a successful UFC debut in July with a first-round knockout over Elisha Ellison. Steveson is one of the most highly touted heavyweight prospects in recent memory, having won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, as well as back-to-back NCAA Division-I championships in 2021 and 2022. At 26, Steveson is projected to be a future title contender.<\/p>\n
Sharaf (4-2) seeks his first UFC victory. The former United States Marine began his pro MMA career with four first-round knockout victories, but is yet to find success in the octagon. Sharaf, 33, lost by second-round knockout to Junior Tafa and was again finished in the second round when he squared off with Steven Asplund in a bout that won a Fight of the Night bonus for both fighters.<\/p>\n
Check out the UFC 331 live blog for Gable Steveson vs. Sean Sharaf below.<\/p>\n
Frank Trigg the third man in the cage.<\/p>\n
Sean Sharaf with a 1-2 combination on the money and DOWN GOES STEVESON. HE IS OUT LIKE A LIGHT. ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS IN UFC HISTORY.<\/p>\n
Official result: Sean Sharaf def. Gable Steveson via first-round KO (punches) (0:12)<\/p>\n
Sharaf drops a \u201cI\u2019m not surprised, motherf*ckers!\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s from Santa Ana, Calif., so he thanks everyone in the crowd for their support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the UFC 331 live blog for Gable Steveson vs. Sean Sharaf, the main card heavyweight bout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898480,"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-898479","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\/898479","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=898479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}