UFC 198 live blog: Warlley Alves vs. Bryan Barberena

This is the UFC 198 live blog for Warlley Alves vs. Bryan Barberena, a welterweight bout at Saturday night’s UFC event at the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil.Alves, who is 10-0 in his career, will face Barberena, who is 2-1 in the UFC and 11-3 overall, on the main card.Check out the UFC 198 live blog below.

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Round 1: Pretty crazy main card in Curitiba, and Alves versus Barberena (a.k.a. the man who derailed Sage Northcutt) gets us kicked off. Third man for this one is Leon Roberts. They touch them up. Alves with a huge body kick, and now he goes on the attach. He is already got a guillotine sunk, and it’s tight…looks like Barberena is fending it off. Alves still clinging to it, and now Barberena pops out. Now Barberena is on top and driving Alves into the fence on the floor, trying to posture out and land. Alves scoots to a knee, and he’s up, still with his back on fence. A couple of inside knees from the clinch, as Barberena keeping the pressure on. They peel away from one another, and Barberena gets socked with a big right. Alves swinging some major leather in space. Now he moves in and lands a great combo, ending with an uppercut that hits flush. Elbows from the clinch from Barberena, but that doesn’t faze Alves. Another clinch, and Alves tucks a sweet little uppercut through the fending limbs. Alves is the aggressor now. He moves in again and lands, before rolling off. Nice leg kick from Barberena, but now a barrage of body shots from Alves, hands and feet to the ribcage. They clinch, and Alves stalks Barberena around the links. Barberena tries to blast Alves with an elbow off the break, …

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