Fight weeks rarely feel like family reunions, but Kyle Daukaus brought something different to Madison Square Garden. He entered UFC 322 with a game plan, a smile, and a deadline. Ahead of the fight, he had confessed in an interview that his wife, Katherine, was expecting to give birth to their second child as he revealed, “I told her ‘Once I hit 3:30pm and I’m in the lobby, heading to the fight, if you go into labor after that, you’ve got to figure it out. I won’t be there — I’ll be fighting.” As such, Daukaus wasn’t just fighting Gerald Meerschaert, he was fighting the clock. And when you mix a middleweight showdown with a potential delivery room sprint, you get one of the most memorable subplots of UFC 322!

When the cage door shut at MSG, Daukaus wasted no time, there was no feeling

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