UFC 278 live blog: Costa vs. Rockhold live updates with round-by-round scoring, winner

UFC 278 comes to you live from the Vivant Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday, August 20. The event will features 13 total bouts that will be getting started at 6 p.m. ET with the early preliminary card on UFC Fight Pass. The main card starts at 10 p.m. on ESPN+ PPV and will feature an eliminator bout between No. 6-ranked middleweight Paulo Costa and former middleweight champion Luke Rockhold.

This fight was originally scheduled for UFC 277, but had to be moved back for reasons unknown, although Rockhold speculates that Costa was having trouble making weight. Costa (13-2) won his first 13 fights in MMA before getting pummeled by middleweight champion Israel Adesanya at UFC 253 and then losing to Marvin Vettori at UFC Fight Night last October in a light heavyweight bout after rumours of Costa struggling to make weight.

Rockhold (16-5) is a former middleweight champion that seems more interested in settled fueds at this stage. He hasn't fought in three years – a horrible knockout loss to current UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz. For this fight Rockhold will meet Costa at middleweight.

We will update this article with the results and relevant video once the fight ends.

Paulo Costa: -345
Luke Rockhold: +285

Costa to win by KO/TKO/DQ: -165
Costa to win by submission: +1600
Costa to win by decision: +400
Draw: +5000
Rockhold to win by KO/TKO/DQ: +1100
Rockhold to win by submission: +900
Rockhold to win by decision: +700

Paulo Costa vs. Luke Rockhold round-by-round results

  
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