Bloody Elbow fight experts, Zane Simon & Dayne Fox, are here tonight – Sat, July 17th, to breakdown the UFC VEGAS 31: Islam Makhachev vs. Thiago Moises event, which was broadcast from the APEX Center in Las Vegas, NV. The guys will have hot takes, possible next fights, as well as reactions to the overall event. Former UFC FW Champ Max Holloway + TUF: Latin America FW winner, Yair Rodríguez, was all lined up to excite as the event headliner. However, Holloway was pulled from the bout due to an injury. That match up is expected to remain intact & the bout will be rescheduled to a future event. So what we had here tonight was the substitute headliner between Islam Makhachev + Thiago Moisés. For a fairly short notice bout, it was expected to be a good match up. A women’s BW bout between former Strikeforce & UFC Women’s BW Champ Miesha ‘Cupcake’ Tate + Marion ‘The Belizean Bruiser’ Reneau served as the event’s Co-Main Bout. It was Tate’s 1st fight since UFC 205, where she lost to former title challenger Raquel Pennington, via Unanimous Decision. She announced her retirement at the age of 30 afterwards, so her last bout was Nov, ‘16. Also on the card, we got the return of Jeremy ‘Lil’ Heathen’ Stephens, after his controversial shove to Drakkar Klose at UFC Vegas 24 back in April (which cancelled the bout on the day of the event, due to Klose sustaining a spinal injury as a result of that shove at the weigh-ins). Stephens was scheduled to face Mateusz Gamrot tonight. Plus, a FW bout was initially slated between Herbert Burns & Billy Quarantillo, but Burns had to cancel in early June due to a torn ACL, + was since replaced by Gabriel Benítez as Quarantillo’s opponent in our main card opener. In the featured prelim, Abubakar Nurmagomedov was scheduled to meet Daniel Rodriguez in a WW bout. Nurmagomedov however, was forced to withdraw from the event due to an injury. Rodriguez was now facing newcomer Preston Parsons in his UFC debut instead. For the opening prelim, we had a HW bout between Rodrigo Nascimento + Alan Baudot. Which was originally expected to take place at UFC FN: Font vs Garbrandt. However, they were rescheduled to this event after Baudot got injured, now it was part of our undercard tonight. Overall, this now 10-bout card saw 3 1st Rd finishes, 5 KO/TKO’s, 3 subs, & 2 decisions. *NOTE: The UFC issues SIX bonuses tonight... Rounding things out, bonuses for putting forth POTN efforts went to Rodrigo Nascimento, Miesha Tate, Mateusz Gamrot, Rodolfo Vieira; FOTN honors went to Gabriel Benitez vs. Billy Quarantillo. Here’s a look at the fight results & updated records for the ‘UFC VEGAS 31’ fight card: ESPN/ESPN+ MAIN CARD 10. Islam Makhachev (20-1) DEF Thiago Moises (15-5) – SUB, Rear Naked Choke at 2:38 of Rd 4 of 5, Total 17:38 9. Meisha Tate (19-7) DEF Marion Reneau (9-8) – KO/TKO, G&P at 1:53 of Rd 2, Total 11:53 8. Mateusz Gamrot (19-1) DEF Jeremy Stephens (28-19) – SUB, Kimura at 1:05 of Rd 1 7. Rodolfo Viera (8-1) DEF Dustin Stolzfus (13-3) – SUB, Rear Naked Choke at 1:54 of Rd 3, Total 11:54 6. Billy Quarantillo (16-3) DEF Gabriel Benitez (22-9) – KO/TKO, Punches from Back Control at 3:40 of Rd 3, Total 13:40 ESPN/ESPN+ PRELIMS 5. Daniel Rodriguez (15-2) DEF Preston Parsons (9-3) – KO/TKO, Punches at 3:47 of Rd 1 4. Amanda Lemos (10-1) DEF Montserrat Ruiz (10-2) – KO/TKO, Counter Right at 0:35 of Rd 1 3. Sergey Morozov (17-4) DEF Khalid Taha (13-4) – DEC, Unanimous 2. Malcolm Gordon (13-5) DEF Francisco Figueiredo (12-4) – DEC, Unanimous 1. Rodrigo Nascimento (9-1) DEF Alan Baudot (8-3) – KO/TKO, Punches (Standing TKO) at 1:29 of Rd 2, Total 6:29 Be sure to follow Zane - @TheZaneSimon & Dayne - @TheDayneFox; and follow @BloodyElbow on twitter as well, for all the latest in MMA happenings.