Dricus Du Plessis vs Khamzat Chimaev - UFC 319: Live score and round-by-round updates as South African aims to defend middleweight title

Right at the end of the first round of the first pre-lim, the heavy favourite Chase Hooper is rocked by a massive right hand and can't recover in time to hear the bell. Big win for Hernandez to subdue a crowd that was heavily behind his opponent.

Pre-lims:

Chase Hooper vs Alexander Hernandez

Jessica Andrade vs Loopy Godinez

Gerald Meerschaert vs Michał Oleksiejczuk

Baisangur Susurkaev vs Eric Nolan

Main card:

Tim Elliott vs Kai Asakura

Jared Cannonier vs Michael Page

Geoff Neal vs Carlos Prates

Lerone Murphy vs Aaron Pico

Dricus du Plessis vs Khamzat Chimaev

The pre-lims in Chicago are up next but there have been a handful of early fights for those keen enough to rock up to United Center from the very first bell, results here:

Joseph Morales def. Alibi Idiris via submission - R2

Karine Silva def. Dione Barbosa via decision

Drakkar Klose def. Edson Barboza via decision - R3

Good morning, afternoon, evening whatever time it is where you are - I hope it is far more sociable than the usual 1am knockings here! At least there's some brilliant fights to dig into tonight, capped off by the big one with the UFC's ultimate boogie man Khamzat Chimaev testing himself against the best of the best Dricus du Plessis.

Keep it here for all the build-up, pre-lims and up to the minute live info on a night that should have buckets of drama in store.