UFC Baku live updates: Jamahal Hill vs. Khalil Rountree Jr. results, round-by-round analysis, highlights
Jamahal Hill vs. Khalil Rountree Jr. headlines UFC Baku on Saturday at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Uncrowned has UFC Baku live results, round-by-round updates, start time and highlights for the Jamahal Hill vs. Khalil Rountree Jr. fight card on Saturday morning at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan. Former UFC light heavyweight champion Hill squares off against recent title challenger Rountree in the afternoon's five-round main event, while longtime lightweight contender Rafael Fiziev looks to fend off hard-charging up-and-comer Ignacio Bahamondes in the co-headliner.
Hill (12-3, 1 NC) finds himself in dire need of a win after dropping back-to-back contests since his 2023 title win over Glover Teixeira. The 34-year-old Chicago native was forced to vacate his title in July 2023 after suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon while playing pickup basketball. He subsequently lost his April 2024 return against then-champion Alex Pereira via first-round knockout, then sustained a brutal third-round knockout loss to fellow former champion Jiri Prochazka this past January.
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One more loss in a row for Hill and his time in the title picture could be over for the foreseeable future.
Rountree (13-6, 1 NC), likewise, aims to bounce back after falling short in a four-round thriller against Pereira in October. The 35-year-old Los Angeles native ultimately lost in his first UFC title opportunity, however his back-and-forth battle with Pereira made Uncrowned's short list as one of 2024's best fights of the year. Prior to that, Rountree racked up a five-fight win streak that included brutal knockouts of Anthony Smith, Chris Daukaus, Karl Roberson and Modestas Bukauskas.
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In the co-main event, Fiziev (12-4) looks to snap his own three-fight losing skid when he takes on the streaking Bahamondes (17-5), who's won six of his past seven UFC appearances.
The UFC Baku start time for the preliminary card is at 12 p.m. ET on ESPN2 and ESPN+. The main card begins live at 3 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN+.
Follow along with Uncrowned's live UFC Baku: Hill vs. Rountree results, highlights and live blog below, including round-by-round play-by-play for the main card.
Main Card (ABC/ESPN+, 3 p.m. ET)
Light heavyweight: Jamahal Hill vs. Khalil Rountree
Lightweight: Rafael Fiziev vs. Ignacio Bahamondes
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Heavyweight: Curtis Blaydes vs. Rizvan Kuniev
165-pound catchweight: Tofiq Musayev vs. Myktybek Orolbai
Lightweight: Nazim Sadykhov vs. Nikolas Motta
Featherweight: Muhammad Naimov vs. Bogdan Grad
Prelims (ESPN2/ESPN+, LIVE NOW)
Welterweight: Seokhyun Ko vs. Oban Elliott
Middleweight: Ismail Naurdiev vs. JunYong Park
Women's bantamweight: Daria Zhelezniakova def. Melissa Mullins via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Women's bantamweight: Klaudia Sygula def. Irina Alekseeva via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Flyweight: Tagir Ulanbekov def. Azat Maksum via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
Heavyweight: Mohammed Usman def. Hamdy Abdelwahab via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
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