Eric Nolan stops Court McGee in what McGee billed as his final fight at UFC 332
Nolan's KO/TKO at 3:26 of the third round was his first UFC win, and it came against the 41-year-old TUF 11 winner in front of McGee's home-state crowd.
Court McGee was stopped by Eric Nolan in the third round of the UFC 332 opener in Salt Lake City, in the fight McGee had said would be the last of his career.
Nolan won the welterweight bout by KO/TKO at 3:26 of round three. It was the Utah crowd's own fighter on the wrong end: McGee, 41, is from Ogden and won The Ultimate Fighter 11 in 2010.
McGee had said before the card that this was his retirement fight, the final bout of his UFC contract. After the fight, the MMA journalist Danny Segura wrote: "Staying 16 years in the UFC is not an easy thing to do."
For Nolan, a former CFFC welterweight champion, it was a first UFC win after losses to Baisangur Susurkaev and Farman Hasanov.
The rest of the card, with every fighter's stats and a place to make your picks, is on our UFC 332 page.
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