UFC 210 results: Patrick Cummins withstands Jan Blachowicz's striking to take majority decision

BUFFALO, N.Y. – By all appearances, Patrick Cummins should have been on his way to the hospital by the time his third round with Jan Blachowicz began.

But after Blachowicz (19-7 MMA, 2-4 UFC) gambled everything on a knockout, Cummins (9-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) made the most of 10 minutes and outworked his foe to win a majority decision.

The light heavyweight bout was part of the preliminary card of today’s UFC 210 event at KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y. It aired on FS1 following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on pay-per-view.

The final scorecards were 29-29 twice and 28-28 for Cummins, who lost many a brain cell taking Blachowicz’s uppercut and left hook. Dropped to the mat early, it looked like a knockout was imminent. Unfortunately for Blachowicz, it was anything but.

With 90 seconds left in the first round, Cummins finally got his man on the mat after flopping there himself on a bum anaconda choke attempt. Although Blachowicz didn’t roll over, attempting armbars from the bottom, the sequence was the first shift in momentum after he repeatedly landed with strikes. And as the fight went on, all that grappling wore out the steam on his punches and kicks.

Cummins was still wide open in the second and third rounds to take punches and kicks from Blachowicz. But he survived and put the fight where he needed it to be, escaping submission attempts and landing big shots from up top.

By the final frame, Blachowicz could hardly defend a flurry of punches against the cage. And a quick takedown attempt put him back on the mat. He got up, only to take a flurry of knees to the head in the clinch, and Cummins bowled him over to finish strong.

With his gutsy performance, Cummins gets back to the win column after a 1-3 skid, while Blachowicz drops to 1-4 in his past five outings.

Up-to-the-minute UFC 210 results include:

• Patrick Cummins def. Jan Blachowicz via majority decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-28)
• Gregor Gillespie def. Andrew Holbrook via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 0:21
• Desmond Green def. Josh Emmett via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 30-27)
• Katlyn Chookagian def. Irene Aldana via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
• Magomed Bibulatov def. Jenel Lausa via unanimous decision (29-26, 29-26, 29-26)

For complete coverage UFC 210, check out the UFC Events section of the site.

(MMAjunkie’s Matt Erickson and Mike Bohn contributed to this report on site in Buffalo.)