UFC on ESPN 1 is now one for the books. All the action took place on Sunday night, February 17th, from the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Nevada. In the night’s main event, Francis Ngannou finished the returning Cain Velasquez by knockout in 26 seconds. It was a vicious way to cap of the main card TV debut on this new platform, and many other fighters leading up to this fight shone bright.
The early ESPN+ fights brought some good action with Emily Whitmire‘s rear-naked choke over Aleksandra Albu and Luke Sanders finishing the once-was best bantamweight on Earth years ago, Renan Barao.