UFC 221 results: Curtis Blaydes grinds out win over Mark Hunt

For a minute, there, it appeared Mark Hunt was going to give his Down Under fans reason to celebrate.

The heavy-handed kickboxer and crowd-pleasing heavyweight rocked Curtis Blaydes twice during the opening round of their UFC 221 co-main event on Saturday night.
But just when it looked like Hunt had the answers, Blaydes changed the questions. The 26-year-old Blaydes took down his soon-to-be-44-year-old foe and and kept him there, a situation which repeated itself over the bulk of t