The 6th Round SBN MMA Post-Fight Show - 'Covington DEF. Lawler'

Zane Simon & Eddie Mercado are here to breakdown tonight’s event with hot takes, possible next fights, as well as reactions to the overall event.

On the 3rd of Aug, 2019, the UFC went to Newark, New Jersey, to bring us UFC on ESPN 5. The event featured a Welterweight bout featuring Colby ‘Chaos’ Covington defeating Robbie ‘Ruthless’ Lawler, via Unanimous Decision after all five vigorous rounds, going at each other hard, amateur scorekeepers had it fairly close. This, following our co-main event, which featured Lightweight veteran Clay ‘The Carpenter’ Guida being devastatingly and rapidly defeated by Jim ‘A-10’ Miller, via Guillotine Choke Submission in a short 58 seconds. Joaquim Silva vs Nasrat Haqparast proved to be a brief 5 and a half minute fight with Nasrat defeating Silva via KO/TKO, delivering a powerful Overhand Left to finish the bout.

We had a couple more decent finishes with Gerald Meerschaert winning via Submission with a Guillotine Choke at 1:49 in Round 3 against Trevin Giles, and Scott “Hot Sauce” Holtzman defeating Dong Hyun Ma via KO/TKO with a Doctor Stoppage five minutes into Round 2. Our first two main card bouts ended via Unanimous Decision with Kennedy Nzechukwu defeating Darko Stosic and Mickey Gall actually defeating Salim Touahri. The remainder of the card was was stacked with finishes all throughout - other than the opening bout decision win... stay tuned in the audio player above for all the fine details and in-depth analysis of the event.

Here’s a look at the fight card RESULTS & UPDATED FIGHT RECORDS:

UFC on ESPN 5 MAIN CARD | SAT AUG 3 - 2PM CDT
170 lbs - Colby Covington (15-1) DEF. Robbie Lawler (28-14), DEC, Unanimous, 5 Rds

155 lbs - Jim Miller (31-13) DEF. Clay Guida (359-18) - SUB, Guillotine Choke, 0:58 R1/3

155 lbs - Nasrat Haqparast (11-2) DEF. Joaquim Silva (11-2) - KO/TKO, Overhand Left, 0:36 R2/3, 5:36 Total

185 lbs - Gerald Meerschaert (30-11) DEF. Trevin Giles (11-2) - SUB, Guillotine Choke, 1:49 R1/3, 11:49 Total

155 lbs - Scott Holtzman (13-3) DEF. Dong Hyun Ma (16-10) - KO/TKO, DR. Stoppage, 5:00 R2/3, 10:00 Total

205 lbs - Kennedy Nzechukwu (7-1) DEF. Darko Stošić (13-3) - KO/TKO, DR. Stoppage, 1:49 R3/3, 11:49 Total

ESPN PRELIMS | 11AM CDT
170 lbs - Mickey Gall (6-2) DEF. Salim Touahri (10-4) - DEC, Unanimous

125 lbs - Antonina Shevchenko (8-1) DEF. Lucie Pudilová (8-5) - SUB, Rear Naked Choke, 1:20 R2/3, 6:20 Total

125 lbs - Matt Schnell (14-4) DEF. Jordan Espinosa (14-6) - SUB, Triangle Choke, 1:23 R1/3

125 lbs - Lauren Murphy (11-4) DEF. Mara Romero Borella (12-6) - KO/TKO, Knee & Punches, 1:46 R2/3, 11:46 Total

185 lbs - Claudio Silva (14-1) DEF. Cole Williams (11-2) - SUB, Rear Naked Choke, 2:35 R1/3

125 lbs - Miranda Granger (7-0) DEF. Hannah Goldy (5-1) - DEC, Unanimous

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