UFC Fight Night 104 results: Curtis Blaydes throws Adam Milstead around, wrecks his knee for TKO

HOUSTON – Curtis Blaydes used every bit of a 30-plus pound advantage to ragdoll Adam Milstead around the octagon.

By the second frame, Milstead’s (8-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) knee buckled under the pressure, bringing a swift end to the fight for Blaydes (7-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) via injury TKO.

The heavyweight bout closed out the preliminary card of today’s UFC Fight Night 104 event at Toyota Center in Houston. It aired on FS1 following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on FS1.

The fight was called just 59 seconds in to the middle frame as a grounded Milstead was taken down and clutched his knee, obviously injured. Blaydes had opened the frame by tripping him to the mat, a move he’d used in the first to damage the same knee.

Instant replays showed a gruesome distortion of Milstead’s knee as he went down.

The fact that Milstead even made it to the second frame said a lot about his toughness. He winced in pain and clutched his knee after being tripped to the mat. Yet he was able to survive the opening frame despite being repeatedly slammed to the mat and pounded by Blaydes.

Still, there was no way Milstead could have recovered in the one minute between rounds. At the first test of his injured knee, it collapsed and ended the fight.

Blaydes now has won two straight after a second-round TKO of Cody East at UFC Fight Night 96, while Milstead goes back to the drawing board after a debut TKO of Chris de la Rocha at UFC Fight Night 88.

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(MMAjunkie’s Matt Erickson and John Morgan contributed to this report on site in Houston.)