UFC Adelaide Results and Highlights

By Chris Taylor - December 1, 2018

Stay tuned to BJPENN.com for all of tonight’s UFC Adelaide results and highlights. The event is headlined by a heavyweight fight between Junior Dos Santos and Tai Tuivasa.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Blagoy Ivanov which took place at July’s UFC Fight Night 133 event.

“JDS” has gone 4-3 inside the octagon since losing his title to Cain Velasquez at UFC 166 in October of 2013.

Meanwhile, Tai Tuivasa enters tonight’s UFC Adelaide main event sporting a perfect professional record of 8-0. In his most recent octagon appearance at UFC 225, “Bam Bam” earned a unanimous decision victory over former UFC champion Andrei Arlovski.

If that wasn’t enough to get you interested, perennial heavyweight contenders Mark Hunt and Justin Willis will collide on this evenings main card.

Mark Hunt is coming off back-to-back losses to opponents Curtis Blaydes and Alexey Oleynik. Prior to the setbacks, “The Super Samoan” had picked up a TKO victory over recent division title challenger Derrick Lewis.

As for Justin Willis, “Big Pretty” improved his overall record to 7-1 this past April by earning a unanimous decision victory over Chase Sherman.

Also featured on tonight’s card is light heavyweight contest between former division champion Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Tyson Pedro.

UFC Adelaide Results – Main Card on Fox Sports 1

Junior Dos Santos vs. Tai Tuivasa – Junior dos Santos def. Taivasa via TKO (hammer fists) in Round Two
Tyson Pedro vs. Mauricio Rua – Rua def. Pedro via TKO (punches) at :43 of Round Three
Mark Hunt vs. Justin Willis – Willis def. Hunt via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)
Tony Martin vs. Jake Matthews – Martin def. Matthews via submission (anaconda choke) at 1:19 of Round Three
Suman Mokhtarian vs. Sodiq Yusuff – Yusuff def. Mokhtarian via TKO (referee stoppage) at 2:14 of Round One

Paul Craig vs. Jim Crute – Crute def. Craig via submission (kimura) at 4:50 of Round Three

UFC Adelaide Results – Prelims on UFC Fight Pass

Alexey Kunchenko vs. Yushin Okami – Kunchenko def. Okami via unanimous decision (30-26 x2, 30-27)
Ben Nguyen vs. Wilson Reis – Reis def. Nguyen via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)
Keita Nakamura vs. Salim Touahri – Nakamura def. Touhari via split-decision (30-27, 28-29, 29-28)
Kai Kara-France vs. Elias Garcia – Kara-France def. Garcia via unanimous decision (30-25, 30-26 x2)
Christos Giagos vs. Mizuto Hirota – Giagos def. Hirota via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-27, 30-28)
Alex Gorgees vs. Damir Ismagulov – Ismagulov def. Gorgees via unanimous decision (30-25, 30-26 x2)

Who do you think will prove victorious at tonight’s UFC Fight Night 142 event?

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