Geoff Neal immediately collapsed to the floor, where he remained for quite some time at UFC 319. Referee Jason Herzog was slammed for an early stoppage during another fight at the United Center in Chicago. Neal pretended to pile on the in-cage official when he first spoke about his tough night at the office.

Geoff Neal suffered a first-round knockout loss on the main card of UFC 319 on Saturday. Neal and Prates wasted little time getting after it in the Octagon, as both fighters started exchanging heavy blows.

Jason Herzog was the referee for the welterweight bout and he stopped the contest right at the final bell of round 1, after Neal had been dropped by the elbow in the final two seconds. A former UFC fighter wonders if the stoppage was premature.

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The Chicago crowd at UFC 319 witnessed something truly rare back-to-back spinning back elbow knockouts on the main card. In the third bout of the evening, Carlos Prates floored Geoff Neal with a spinning back elbow at the buzzer of Round 1,

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