UFC Stockholm Radio-Style PBP: ‘Gustafsson vs Smith’ Results & Main Card Reactions

The UFC returns tonight, Sat, June 1st, 2019, with some decent bouts worth catching. The top two fights happening at UFC on ESPN+ 11 are scheduled to take place in the light heavyweight division. The main event features former title challengers, Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson and Anthony ‘Lionheart’ Smith, and the co-main event is now set to be Jimi Manuwa vs Aleksandar Rakic after Ilir Latifi was pulled from his scheduled bout against Volkan Oezdemir. Perhaps the best part of this main card offering is that the card takes place midday in the US, although the event is being held at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden.

For the video broadcast of this show visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY3sMgySid0

We hope to cover an abundance of highly entertaining fights, but also to provide you with a radio-style play-by-play broadcast of each eye-poke, groin strike, highlight-reel knockout, etc. that is being presented behind the ESPN+ monetary blockade. During the entire main card of this event Brian will be doing his best to keep fight fans up-to-date on the moment-to-moment action inside of the eight-sided cage.

We’ve done this style of show in the past exclusively for pay-per-view (PPV) events and are trying it out for UFC Fight Nights as well. If you like the product please consider subscribing to the channel and giving the show a heart.

Here’s the results for the five main event bouts:

ESPN+ 11 MAIN EVENT | 1PM/10AM ETPT
Anthony Smith DEF, Alexander Gustafsson - SUB-Rear Naked Choke, 2:38 R4 of 5, 17:38 Total
Aleksandar Rakić DEF. Jimi Manuwa - KO/TKO-Head Kick, 0:42 R1 of 3
Makwan Amirkhani DEF. Chris Fishgold - SUB-Anaconda Choke, 4:25 R2, 9:25 Total
Christos Giagos DEF. Damir Hadžović - DEC-Unanimous
Daniel Teymur DEF. Sung Bin Jo - DEC-Unanimous

We will not be doing live radio-style play-by-play for the prelims, but you can find all the fight results right here on Bloody Elbow.

ESPN 2 PRELIMS | 10AM/7AM ETPT
Sergey Khandozhko DEF. Rostem Akman, DEC-Unanimous
Lina Lansberg DEF. Tonya Evinger , DEC-Unanimous
Leonardo Santos DEF. Stevie Ray, KO/TKO Punch, 2:17 R1,
Frank Camacho DEF. Nick Hein, KO/TKO Punches, 4:56 R2, 9:56 Total
Bea Malecki DEF. Duda Santana, SUB-Rear Naked Choke, 1:59 R2, 6:59 Total
Devin Clark DEF. Darko Stosic, DEC-Unanimous
Joel Alvarez DEF. Danilo Belluardo, KO/TKO Ground & Pound, 2:22 R2, 7:22

Performances of the Night: Anthony Smith, Aleksandar Rakic, Makwan Amirkhani & Leonardo Santos
FOTN: No FOTN bonus
Attendance: 14,319 (SOLD OUT)
Gate: $2,000,000

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