The UFC Fight Night 257 main card opened with a welterweight clash between China’s Taiyilake Nueraji and Conor McGregor’ s SBG Ireland teammate Kiefer Crosbie. Nueraji entered the Octagon riding a five-fight win streak into his UFC debut after delays following his Road to UFC run. Kiefer Crosbie, meanwhile, had joined the promotion in 2023 but carried two first-round submission losses into the bout. Ultimately, Nueraji scored a decisive finish in his debut, though it came with controversy after he blasted Crosbie with an illegal knee at UFC Shanghai.

What had been a one-sided fight turned sour when the Chengdu native, dominating on the ground, unleashed a blatant illegal knee on his grounded opponent. Replays showed ‘BDK’ struggling to regain his balance and bleeding from a nasty cut

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