NEW YORK — The wait is over.
The atmosphere here at Madison Square Garden is electric as mixed martial art’s greatest athletes get set to take center stage at The World’s Most Famous Arena for UFC 205.
The jam-packed card features three title bouts, highlighted by a champion-versus-champion battle between featherweight belt-holder Conor McGregor and lightweight king Eddie Alvarez in the lightweight championship match.
Tyron Woodley will also try to defend his welterweight title belt against Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson and Joanna Jedrzejczyk squares off against Karolina Kowalkiewicz in the women’s strawweight title fight.
The main event card will kick off at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view, but fight fans will have plenty of preliminary bouts to watch until then.
Be sure to check back here for a live blog of McGregor-Alvarez, Woodley-Thompson and Jedrzejczyk-Kowalkiewicz with round-by-round analysis. You also can check out live results for every fight below and view a live stream of the event here.
MAIN CARD (PPV, 10 p.m. ET):
Lightweight title: Conor McGregor vs. Eddie Alvarez
Welterweight title: Tyron Woodley vs. Stephen Thompson
Women’s strawweight title: Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Karolina Kowalkiewicz
Middleweight: Chris Weidman vs. Yoel Romero
Women’s bantamweight: Miesha Tate vs. Raquel Pennington
PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 8 p.m. ET):
Featherweight: Frankie Edgar vs. Jeremy Stephens
Lightweight: Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Michael Johnson
Middleweight: Rafael Natal vs. Tim Boetsch
Welterweight: Vicente Luque vs. Belal Muhammad
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass 7 p.m. ET):
Catchweight: Jim Miller vs. Thiago Alves
Women’s bantamweight: Liz Carmouche def. Katlyn Chookagian via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28).
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