{"id":51585,"date":"2022-08-21T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-278-results-usman-vs-edwards-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T02:05:44","slug":"ufc-278-results-usman-vs-edwards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-278-results-usman-vs-edwards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 278 Results: Usman vs.  Edwards 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"RgajvA\">MMA Fighting has UFC 278 results for the Usman vs.  Edwards 2 fight card, live blogs of all the main card fights, and live UFC 278 Twitter updates from Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lzLOhu\">In the main event, UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman will square off against Leon Edwards for a second time.  Usman is aiming for his sixth straight title defense, while Edwards is 9-0 with one no-contest over his past 10 fights.<\/p>\n<p id=\"IqaSFi\">Usman defeated Edwards via unanimous decision in their previous meeting at UFC on FOX 17 on Dec.  19, 2015.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5Qgow2\">Former UFC champion Luke Rockhold makes his long-awaited return when he faces Paulo Costa in a middleweight contest in the co-main event.<\/p>\n<p id=\"BzuH0C\">Check out the UFC 278 results below.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"4hsCC1\">\n<\/aside>\n<aside id=\"nCxVnU\">\n<\/aside>\n<p id=\"1iwkba\"><strong>main card (<\/strong><strong>ESPN+<\/strong><strong>  PPV at 10 pm ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"p5JUuI\">Kamaru Usman vs.  Leon Edwards<\/p>\n<p id=\"S4HzYx\">Paulo Costa vs.  Luke Rockhold<\/p>\n<p id=\"UVxwc4\">Jose Aldo vs.  Merab Dvalishvili<\/p>\n<p id=\"RnCZyp\">Wu Yanan vs.  Lucie Pudilova<\/p>\n<p id=\"5bPwzA\">Tyson Pedro vs.  Harry Hunsucker<\/p>\n<p id=\"MPCUaw\"><strong>Prelims (ABC\/ESPN\/<\/strong><strong>ESPN+<\/strong><strong>  live now)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"4zzHsn\">Marcin Tybura vs.  Alexander Romanov<\/p>\n<p id=\"SVqjha\">Jared Gordon def.  Leonardo Santos via unanimous decision (30-27 x3)<\/p>\n<p id=\"x3Yfdh\">Sean Woodson vs.  Luis Saldana ruled split draw (29-27, 27-29, 28-28) |  Twitter Reax<\/p>\n<p id=\"b5diJD\">Ange Loosa def.  AJ Fletcher via unanimous decision (29-27, 29-28 x2)<\/p>\n<p id=\"tdUAO0\"><strong>Early Prelims <\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"n5xTCl\">Amir Albazi def.  Francisco Figueiredo via sub (rear-naked choke) (R1, 4:34) |  watch finish<\/p>\n<p id=\"hThFK4\">Aori Qileng def.  Jay Perrin via unanimous decision (29-28 x3)<\/p>\n<p id=\"HwDxM2\">Victor Altamirano def.  Daniel Lacerda via first-round TKO (3:39)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA Fighting has UFC 278 results for the Usman vs. Edwards 2 fight card, live blogs of all the main card fights, and live UFC 278 Twitter updates from Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the main event, UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman will square off against Leon Edwards for a second time. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-278-results-usman-vs-edwards-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UFC 278 Results: Usman vs.  Edwards 2<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50277,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kamaru-usman-leon-edwards-on-the-money\/","url_meta":{"origin":51585,"position":0},"title":"Kamaru Usman, Leon Edwards on the money","date":"August 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 MMA Junkie was on scene and reporting live from Friday's official UFC 278 fighter weigh-ins, where everyone on the card hit their marks. 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