Key takeaways
Gabriel Bonfim beat Belal Muhammad by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. Belal Muhammad had come in as the division's No. 7. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Brendan Allen beat Edmen Shahbazyan after three rounds at middleweight.
Across the twelve bouts that produced a result, three ended by knockout, four by submission and five on the judges' scorecards — seven stoppages in twelve fights. One of the five decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Iwo Baraniewski, who stopped Junior Tafa at 1:25 of round one, and six of the seven finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Bryce Mitchell's submission of Santiago Luna, 14 minutes and 52 seconds in. End to end, the twelve fights filled one hour and 58 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: five of its seven results came early, against two of the five above it. Alessandro Costa (knockout, round one), Edgar Chairez (submission, round one) and Chelsea Chandler (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Seven ranked fighters appeared, and three of them were in the top two bouts.
Eleven weight classes were used, bantamweight most often with two bouts. Paramount+ carried all twelve bouts, split across a main card and one preliminary block.
