UFC 323 live: Merab Dvalishvili vs Petr Yan UK start time tonight, undercard results and updates

Make that four finishes from four fights!

Jalin Turner emerges from retirement with a win in another short, chaotic contest!

He cuts Edson Barboza with an elbow early on, then drops the veteran twice en route to a TKO.

Jalin Turner def. Edson Barboza via first-round TKO (punches, 2:24).

Iwo Baraniewski and Ibo Aslan produce 89 seconds of absolute bedlam, wow!!

Baraniewski gets hurt but also drops Aslan numerous times, ultimately finishing him with a cleannnn right hand!

The fans go wild in the T-Mobile Arena.

Three fights, three finishes – is there something in the air tonight…?

Iwo Baraniewski def. Ibo Aslan via first-round knockout (punches, 1:29)

Another one in the books already!

Mansur Abdul-Malik gets an early takedown on Antonio Trocoli, and in the ensuing sequence of scrambles, he’s able to lock up a standing guillotine choke!

Soon comes the tap, and that’s all she wrote, barely a minute in.

Is the unbeaten Abdul-Malik one to watch at middleweight? It looks like it…

Mansur Abdul-Malik def. Antonio Trocoli via first-round submission (guillotine choke, 1:09)

The night gets going with a stoppage win for Mairon Santos, who drops Muhammad Naimov with a clean right cross before securing the TKO on his downed opponent!

Santos is part of the popular team the “Fighting Nerds”, and he sports their trademark glasses during his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan.

Santos also apologises for missing weight for this fight, which was due to be at 145lb but was conducted slightly above that.

Mairon Santos def. Muhammad Naimov via third-round TKO (punches, 0:21)

So, we’ll be providing updates from the early prelims as they come in, but our live, round-by-round fight updates will begin when the regular prelims start.

Sit tight for those early-prelim results, though, and more build-up to tonight’s main card!

This week brought more serious news, too.

Also announced this week was the return of the UFC to London, set for March as usual.

No fights have yet been revealed, but who could feature? And who is almost certainly ruled out?

We look into those questions in the article below, which also includes ticket details for you.

Last night, the UFC held a press conference to promote its title fights from the first two events of 2026: UFC 324 and 325.

And that press conference saw the announcement of another title fight (a title of sorts, anyway).

At UFC 326 in early March, Max Holloway will defend his “Baddest Motherf****r” belt against Charles Oliveira.

That lightweight bout is a rematch 11 years in the making! Are you excited?

Dvalishvili – 2/9; Yan – 10/3

Pantoja – 4/9; Van – 7/4

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Ahead of their fights tonight, here’s a look at where Merab Dvalishvili and Petr Yan rank on the Indy Sport pound-for-pound list…