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TUF 27 Finale results: Bryce Mitchell squeaks past Tyler Diamond in back-and-forth battle

In a back-and-forth fight with a little bit of everything, Bryce Mitchell edged out Tyler Diamond by the slimmest of margins, despite getting the worst of it in the final round.

Mitchell (10-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) survived a rough final frame to take the majority decision win over Diamond (9-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) notching the victory with scores of 29-28, 29-28, and 28-28.

The featherweight bout was part of the preliminary card of today’s TUF 27 Finale event at Pearl Theatre at The Palms in Las Vegas. It aired on FS1 following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on FS1.

After a first round that saw both fighters trade takedowns and significant strikes, Mitchell had his best moment of the fight early on in the second. That’s when he locked up a triangle choke from his back that appeared to have Diamond in some trouble.

But when he proved unable to finish the choke, Mitchell instead had to settle for battering Diamond with elbow strikes from the bottom. The blows were severe enough that at one point referee Marc Goddard warned Diamond to defend himself, though his options for that were limited at the time.

Diamond would survive that precarious position and then go on to dominate the third round on the mat, using a suffocating top game to shut Mitchell’s offense down, but without ever coming close to a finish himself.

In the end, the judges seemed to reward Mitchell’s attempted submission and active first round more than Diamond’s positional control, giving Mitchell the nod by a single point on two different scorecards.

Mitchell stays undefeated as a professional with the win. Diamond suffers the first official loss of his pro career.

Up-to-the-minute TUF 27 Finale results include:

  • Bryce Mitchell def. Tyler Diamond via majority decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-28)
  • Steven Peterson def. Matt Bessette via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
  • Gerald Meerschaert def. Oskar Piechota via technical submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 2, 4:55

For complete coverage of The Ultimate Fighter 27 Finale, check out the UFC Events section of the site.

(MMAjunkie’s Mike Bohn, John Morgan and Ken Hathaway contributed to this report on site in Las Vegas.)

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