Texas Commission explains why Joaquin Buckley won UFC Austin.

For those who placed money on Joaquin Buckley’s victory in UFC Austin’s second round, but were expecting a reverse of fortune, it does not appear that this will happen.

At Saturday’s event in the Lone Star State, Buckley poured it on opponent Albert Duraev for 10 minutes before it appeared things would head to a third round. Instead, before the action could begin for the final stanza, both fighters rose to their feet, and referee Jacob Montalvo called the cage side doctor into the octagon to check on the mangled up eye of Duraev. The fight was stopped by referee Jacob Montalvo. It appeared that Buckley would win the second round with a TKO victory.

However, ring announcer Joe Martinez announced the result as a TKO “at 10 seconds of round number three,’ which led to a lot of confusion. In fact, the UFC’s official website had both second and third round TKO results on their website in different spots.

So what is the official outcome? Per the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, it will remain as a third-round TKO.

“We started the third round, but the fighter (Duraev) didn’t come out of the corner, so we called the fight with a TKO at 00:10 into the third,” a commission spokesperson told MMA Fighting on Tuesday.

When it was debated why the round would end that way, even though the third round had not technically started, the spokesperson for TLDR added some context.

“Since Round 2 had ended but the fight hadn’t, we don’t have a mechanism to just call it between rounds. So – we started the clock, which started Round 3, and then stopped the clock at 10 seconds, thereby stopping the round and the fight.”

According To DraftKings Buckley won via second-round KO/TKO at a +1000,, while “New Mansa”, straight finished in Round 2.

While it’s a bummer for the second-round prop bettors, those who bet Buckley to win via third-round KO/TKO were luckily rewarded as odds were at +1600, and +1700 for a Round 3 Buckley stoppage win.

Congratulations and sincere apologies to all who received third-round props.