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Marc RaimondiESPN
Before Renato Moicano and Chan Sung Jung step into the Octagon for their main event, there are several bouts of consequence happening tonight at UFC Fight Night in Greenville, South Carolina.
Here’s how the fights are going down:
Deron Winn def. Eric Spicely by unanimous decision
Daniel Cormier‘s protégé got a win in his UFC debut, but it didn’t come easily. Winn blasted Spicely with combos in a brawl of a middleweight bout over the first two rounds, only for Spicely to come back and bust open Winn’s left eye with knees in the third. It was a wild Fight of the Night candidate in which Winn ultimately did enough to win by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
Winn (6-0) is a 30-year-old former standout amateur wrestler who trains out of American Kickboxing Academy with Cormier. Spicely (12-5), a 32-year-old Massachusetts native, was on a two-fight winning streak on the regional circuit before getting the call for his UFC return on five days’ notice. Winn’s previous opponent, Bruno Silva, tested positive for a prohibited substance in a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency test.
Still to come …
Women’s flyweight: Ariane Lipski vs. Molly McCann
Heavyweight: Allen Crowder vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
Lightweight: Matt Wiman vs. Luis Pena
Strawweight: Ashley Yoder vs. Syuri Kondo
Men’s featherweight: Dan Ige vs. Kevin Aguilar
Middleweight: Kevin Holland vs. Alessio Di Chirico
Women’s flyweight: Andrea Lee vs. Montana De La Rosa
Men’s bantamweight: Andre Ewell vs. Anderson dos Santos
Welterweight: Bryan Barberena vs. Randy Brown
Men’s featherweight: Renato Moicano vs. Chan Sung Jung