Welterweights Chris Lytle and Josh Koscheck will meet in the Octagon next.
The boo birds come out again, although the action is a little more fast paced than the last bout. Lytle is swinging but Koscheck has enough distance to move away. Koscheck is able to score a take down but is almost locked in a guillotine choke before breaking free. Koscheck has Lytle under control for the rest of the round.
Lytle was able to get a take down and went for another guillotine choke but Koscheck breaks free and gains the advantage with both fighters on the ground and lands forearms. Lytle has a cut on this forehead above his right eyebrow. Lytle is trying to break free but can't. There is blood in the corner of the ring. As the round ends, the wound appears to be deep.
Both fighters go to the ground again and Lytle appeas to be going for it all with a variety of choke and submission moves, but he can't lock one in on Koscheck. Two minutes into the round, Koscheck is really digging his forearm into the forehead of Lytle trying to open up the cut more. With 90 seconds into the match both fighters are stood up and Lytle is head is red with blood. Koscheck face is red too. The crowd has been behind Lytle and are chanting for him to pull it out. Lytle and Koscheck go at it for the final 10 seconds but neither can land the knockout punch.
The judges rule the bout, 30-26, 29-27, 30-28, for Koscheck and improves to 14-2 while Lytle falls to 35-15-4
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