UFC 315 – Belal Muhammad vs Jack Della Maddalena LIVE: Start time, undercard, scorecards

Prepolec survives, just. He hears the bell with BSD locking in a standing rear naked choke incredibly tight. The Frenchman secured an early takedown and then dominated the exchanges on the ground, albeit with his opponent defending the submissions deftly.

Benoit Saint-Denis’ back-to-back defeats by Dustin Poirier and Renato Moicano have put his back against the wall and even though the French speaking district he’s performing in might usually support him, he’s facing a Canadian tonight in Kyle Prepolec. This should be a great lightweight contest.

Malott is the big winner so far tonight and will have bagged a few new fans for himself – who will rival him for a performance of the night bonus?

Those pre-lims really delivered and the Malott moment to top it off really has the crowd ticking ahead of the main card – with four fights ahead of the main event and two title showdowns.

He loaded up on that hook and stepped off the centre line to do the damage. A real career highlight for the Ontario man.

Huge moment for the Canadian on home turf as he connects with a clean left hook to floor Radtke and then land some brutal finishing shots on the floor, knocking out the gumshield and his opponent. Radtke needs help to a stool and Malott sits on top of the cage with the flag draped on his shoulders. He gets emotional in the cage afterwards – ‘When it comes to defending this country in the octagon, know one thing Canada, I stand on guard for thee’, he says.

In the featured pre-lim, home favourite Mike Malott’s backing in taking the shape of a very, very loud chant against his opponent Charles Radtke.

To do this to Jessica Andrade, a legend of the sport, is one hell of a way to get the home crowd going. Brilliant from the flyweight, who is closing in on a title shot.

As soon as you say the words Montreal and UFC, there’s only one man who springs to mind… Georges St Pierre, for many the GOAT of MMA. He’s here with Aimann Zahabi tonight.

Lithuanian-British fighter Modestas Bukauskas ‘The Baltic Gladiator’ just took home a unanimous decision win on what Daniel Cormier thought was a dubious call. One just gave him every round and another said Cutelaba won all three, with the third scoring it to Bukauskas by a round. Weird cards.

The Kiwi almost finished a teak tough Ivan Erslan in the third round but had to settle for a unanimous decision in the end. He dropped him with a heavy right hand in the third and leapt on top but just could not find the fight-ending blow. Still, he moves to 7-0 with a really impressive showing.

What a lovely graphic this is from TNT Sport and outside of the main event, Jose Aldo will be a massive attraction. The CV isn’t bad, is it?

The pre-lims have just started but we’ve already had the first bouts of the evening in front of the keen fans who found their seats early before the televised action at Bell Centre.

Bekzat Almakhan def. Brad Katona by first-round KO

Daniel Santos def. Lee Jeong Leung by unanimous decision

Marc Andre Barriault def. Bruno Silva by first-round KO

Navajo Sterling vs Ivan Erslan

Modestas Bukauskas vs Ion Cutelaba

Jessica Andrade vs Jasmine Jasudavicius

Mike Malott vs Charles Radtke

Benoit St Denis vs Kyle Prepolec

Alexa Grasso vs Natalia Silva

Jose Aldo vs Aiemann Zahabi

Valentina Shevchenko vs Manon Fiorot

Belal Muhammad vs Jack Della Maddalena

Welcome along to our UFC 315 live blog – congratulations in particular if you’re an early bird here for the next few hours of scraps, which we’ll round off with a welterweight title showdown.

Can Jack Della Maddalena shock the world and bring it home for Australia or is this the dawn of a long reign for Belal Muhammad?