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00:0055 pounds, Kevin Lee, after some trials, 154 and a hook.
00:05The Motown phenom will have a half-inch leach advance.
00:07Kevin Lee at plus 200.
00:10We are either way.
00:10Tony Ferguson is wearing gray.
00:12Kevin Lee is in group.
00:25Ferguson talked a lot this week, DC, about that wrestling.
00:30Look at this.
00:35Beautiful scramble here.
00:36Tony's going to wind up on top.
00:38Nope.
00:39Kevin's on top.
00:40Tony's in mission control.
00:41Be very careful there.
00:43If you're Kevin Lee, you've got to be very aware.
00:45His right arm is trapped.
00:47He's locked up here.
00:49Tony's got a very good position on him here with rubber guard.
00:55And Kevin's right arm is locked up.
00:57He's got to yank that arm out.
01:00And Tony's going to try to control it.
01:02And then transition to an omoplata.
01:04But Kevin's stepping over nicely.
01:06And then Kevin's going to wind up on top of Tony here.
01:09Tony's still holding on to that arm, though.
01:14Kevin's on top here.
01:18Tony on bottom.
01:19And Kevin's landing some good knees.
01:21Looks like a cut on the eyelid, the right eyelid of Tony Ferguson.
01:26Yeah, that was from the poke from earlier in the fight.
01:31He's just touching it.
01:33Excuse me, Joe.
01:34With this takedown, Kevin Lee is now taking down 11 of his 12 UFC opponents.
01:38Trying to get the ground and pound going here.
01:39Just over a minute to go in round one.
01:41The arm bar's not there.
01:43The arm is too low.
01:44But he's going for it.
01:46Now, look at this.
01:47North-south position for Kevin.
01:52It's not a good position here for Tony.
01:55Kevin's in an excellent position here.
01:57He may try to transition to Crucifix.
02:04He's in side control here now.
02:08Tony's trying to scramble and trying to get his right knee in between the two of them.
02:13But Kevin holding side control here.
02:16And because of how good Kevin Lee is, most guys, as wrestlers,
02:20will try to give their back to get up.
02:22Look at this, Joe.
02:23You can't give your back against Tony, Kevin Lee, because he's so good on your back.
02:26Kevin on top.
02:28Full mount.
02:29Big elbows coming down from Kevin Lee.
02:3124 seconds.
02:33There's a very bad position here for Tony and a very good one for Kevin.
02:38Dropping bombs down on Tony Ferguson.
02:41Tony's got to survive here.
02:42Big elbows.
02:44High mounts here for Kevin.
02:46Tony's in a lot of trouble.
02:51Tony's trying to escape.
02:53And he escaped.
02:54And a big round for Kevin Lee.
02:57And a strike.
02:58And a strikeout.
02:59Well, the bad blood between these two former Grand Valley State wrestlers is very real.
03:03There is respect.
03:04Certainly Ferguson respecting him.
03:08Lee's doing a good job of trying to stay.
03:10Oh.
03:12Trying to stay the course.
03:13Not trying to play into the game when Tony starts to roll his arm at him.
03:17Good kick to the bottom there from Kevin, but he fell down with it.
03:21Those jabs are landing though.
03:27Oh, nice ball.
03:29Starting to breathe heavy.
03:31And three early.
03:32Tony Ferguson is very patient.
03:34You know, you watch him at the weigh-in and Kevin was very emotional.
03:41You know, you wonder if that plays a part too in the fatigue as the fight goes on.
03:47Nice kick to the body.
03:48Heard Dean wisely gets in there quickly at the end of it.
03:54Kevin Lee said in between rounds that he's feeling tired.
03:59It's too early in a five-round fight for a guy like Tony Ferguson to start feeling the fatigue.
04:05And Tony Ferguson is a patient wolf.
04:07Even if you go up 2-0.
04:10Big double leg level change by Lee.
04:13Hey, he just got defense.
04:14Hey!
04:16Takedown by Lee.
04:17Big takedown.
04:19A lot of effort though.
04:21If Tony survives this, and he can move back to his feet.
04:25That was a big takedown.
04:26Took a lot of energy and effort.
04:27He needs to keep Ferguson down for a while.
04:30So he can try to regain a little bit of energy than he used to get that takedown.
04:35And if you're Kevin Lee, you really do want to be in the top position as you dominated that position in the first round.
04:44Tony is sliding that right, excuse me, that left knee up high.
04:50And that will serve to prevent Kevin from being able to get real leverage down on his shots.
04:56He's making some space in between the two of them.
04:59And putting a blockade up.
05:02See how he's using that left knee?
05:04He's got that foot on the hip now as well.
05:06And he's going to eventually push him off.
05:10He's going to wait.
05:10There it is.
05:11There's frustration in that too.
05:12And it also streams live on Fox Sportsbook.
05:15Tony is not being very elusive here.
05:18He's standing right in front of him.
05:19And there's another nice takedown from Kevin Lee.
05:23Kevin Lee's round so far.
05:25So even though Tony looks fresh here, and Tony is the one that's talking,
05:28Kevin Lee is winning this round with takedown.
05:30Tony's looking for the arm bar.
05:32And it presented something.
05:33He's got it.
05:34He's got it.
05:35He's got it.
05:35He's going to break his arm.
05:40Oh, look at that.
05:41Beautiful step over.
05:43Kevin Lee.
05:45Wow.
05:47No, he doesn't have the triangle.
05:49Man, tremendous.
05:52Tremendous.
05:53Kevin Lee.
05:54I mean, I thought his arm was dunzo there.
05:56Seconds away from a UFC championship instead.
06:00We trek onward less than two minutes here to go round three.
06:03The elbow's on the outside.
06:05As long as the elbow's on the outside, he's okay.
06:06It's when he gets that elbow inside towards the belly button area that Kevin's in trouble.
06:18Right now he's in trouble.
06:19That's not good.
06:20He's got to keep it out of there.
06:21Yeah, but he's not clamping it down.
06:27You cannot try to find places to rest if you're Kevin Lee.
06:31Oh, he's got the triangle.
06:31You cannot try to find places to rest if you're Kevin Lee.
06:34You've got to be moving.
06:35He used to be defending right now.
06:36That was the elbow's in trouble.
06:38He's in trouble, Joe.
06:39He is in trouble.
06:40He's in a lot of trouble, Joe.
06:41He's got the arm on the outside, and he's going to pull the head.
06:43Let's see if Kevin can survive this.
06:46It's better if the arm is across.
06:49Oh, that's it.
06:49That's it.
06:50Tony Ferguson.
06:52He went out.
06:53He went out.
06:53He's done it.
06:54Tony Ferguson is the UFC interim lightweight champion of the world.
07:01And what a display of mutual respect there.
07:04Wow.
07:04Ladies and gentlemen, referee Herb Dean is called to stop to this contest at four minutes, two
07:10seconds of round number three, declaring the winner by submission due to a triangle choke.
07:15And now, the new interim UFC lightweight champion of the world, Tony El Cucuy, Ferguson.

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