UFC 309: Brit Paul Craig suffers crushing loss to Bo Nickal at MSG as Dana White signed star is BOOED by fans

PAUL CRAIG failed to halt Bo Nickal's seemingly unstoppable emergence up the middleweight ranks.

The Scot locked horns with the highly-touted imaginable connected a stacked UFC 309 main card successful Madison Square Garden aboriginal this morning.

Craig entered the showdown with the American wrestler a whopping 11/1 underdog acknowledgment to back-to-back losses to Johnny Walker and Caio Borralho.

But helium failed to propulsion disconnected a sensational submission to bounce the Dana White signed prima from the ranks of the unbeaten, suffering a unanimous determination defeat.

There was nary interaction of gloves betwixt the pair, which was unsurprising fixed the hostility betwixt them during combat week.

Nickal was hesitant to utilise his wrestling aboriginal doors successful a amusement of respect to Craig's jiu-jitsu, opting to onslaught with limb kicks from range.

Craig staggered the American with a bully debased calf footwear conscionable a infinitesimal and a fractional into the stanza earlier landing a bully close hand.

Chants of "Bo, Bo, Bo" began to ringing retired arsenic the MSG assemblage tried to get down their man, who narrowly avoided a caput footwear earlier the last infinitesimal of the stanza.

Two large overhand lefts from Nickal reminded Craig to punctual his Ps and Qs conscionable earlier the extremity of the first.

Two large overhand lefts from Nickal reminded Craig to punctual his Ps and Qs conscionable earlier the extremity of the first.

Craig tried to bait Nickal into taking him down with dense hep thrust feints aft the restart but the wrestler wasn't having immoderate of it.

Nickal alternatively looked to find a location for his consecutive near but struggled to find the target.

Craig himself struggled to onshore thing of enactment but limb kicks from scope arsenic helium seemed hesitant to prosecute successful the pocket.

A thunderous consecutive near recovered a location connected Craig's chin with a infinitesimal of the stanza remaining but helium took the changeable well.

Nickal rattled the chin of Craig again successful the 3rd but the Scot ate it similar a packed lunch.

Fans started booing conscionable earlier the two-minute people owed to a deficiency of crushed enactment from the grappling experts.

And they turned connected Nickal towards the extremity of the fight, shouting overrated until the last horn.

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