The first non-music event at the £365million venue brought the biggest stars of MMA to the city. And while fighters flew in from across the globe, home favourite Tom Aspinall, from Atherton, and popular Scouser Paddy Pimblett were the stand-outs with two big first-round victories.
The night was epic, in more ways than one, with the final fight finishing at around 6am to cater for a US PPV audience. The main results were as follows with the best of the pictures below.
- Belal Muhammad defeats Leon Edwards by unanimous decision
- Tom Aspinall defeats Curtis Blaydes by TKO
- Paddy Pimblett defeats King Green by submission
- Gregory Rodrigues defeats Christian Leroy Duncan by unanimous decision
- Arnold Allen defeats Giga Chikadze by unanimous decision
- Nathaniel Wood defeats Daniel Pineda by unanimous decision
- Bruna Brasil defeats Molly McCann by unanimous decision
- Jake Hadley defeats Caolan Loughran by unanimous decision
- Muhammad Mokaev defeats Manel Kape by unanimous decision
- Oban Elliott defeats Preston Parsons by unanimous decision
- Modestas Bukauskas defeats Marcin Prachnio by submission
- Sam Patterson defeats Kiefer Crosbie by submission
- Mick Parkin defeats Lukasz Brzeski by KO
- Shauna Bannon defeats Alice Ardelean by split decision
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Tom Aspinall celebrates his knockout win against Curtis Blaydes | Getty Images
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Wigan's Muhammad Mokaev won his grudge match with Manel Kape | Getty Images
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Atherton's Tom Aspinall takes a punch from Curtis Blaydes, but made quick work of his title defence | Getty Images
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Belal Muhammad works for a submission against Leon Edwards | Getty Images