UFC London 2026 LIVE: Lerone Murphy misses out on title shot after controversial decision against Movsar Evloev

Follow the fallout after Evloev won a contentious decision against the Manchester featherweight, handing Murphy his first defeat
There was controversy in the featherweight main event of UFC London on Saturday, as Movsar Evloev won a contentious decision over Lerone Murphy .

The first three rounds were closely contested on the feet, but with Manchester’s Murphy arguably having a slight edge over his Russian opponent, who was bizarrely neglecting his trademark wrestling.

And although Evloev reverted to his strengths in the final two rounds, he was docked a point in the fourth after landing his second hard low blow of the night.

All the above seemingly set up a close result either way, perhaps even a draw, yet the scorecards read 48-46, 48-46, 47-47 in favour of Evloev.

With that, the Russian stayed unbeaten, handed Murphy his first loss, and Evloev may well be next for champion Alexander Volkanovski.

In the co-main event, Liverpool’s Luke Riley moved to 2-0 in the UFC with a decision win over Michael Aswell Jr, while Michael “Venom” Page and Sam Patterson failed to deliver the quality that was expected in their all-British bout, as Page won comfortably on points.

Follow all the fallout from UFC London and re-live the action :
UFC London main-card results in full
Movsar Evloev def.

Lerone Murphy via majority decision (48-46, 48-46, 47-47)
Luke Riley def.

Michael Aswell Jr via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Michael “Venom” Page def.

Sam Patterson via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Iwo Baraniewski def.

Austen Lane via first-round knockout (punches, 0:28)
Christian Leroy Duncan def.

Roman Dolidze via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Danny Silva def.

Kurtis Campbell via second-round TKO (punches, 0:31)
UFC London prelim results in full
Mason Jones def.

Axel Sola via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Nathaniel Wood def.

Losene Keita via split decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29)
Mario Pinto def.

Felipe Franco via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Mantas Kondratavicius def.

Antonio Trocoli via decision (30-27, 29-27, 29-27)
Brando Pericic def.

Louie Sutherland via first-round TKO (ground strikes, 1:48)
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady def.

Shem Rock via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Shanelle Dyer def.

Ravena Oliveira via second-round TKO (strikes, 1:17)
Three narrow (lucky?) wins in a row for Evloev
Evloev moved to 20-0 on Saturday; we’d be remiss not to mention that his last three fights have been very close.

His decisions over Arnold Allen, former bantamweight king Aljamain Sterling, and Murphy could all have gone the other way.

Perhaps his fight with Allen wasn’t quite as close as the other two, but still.

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