Main card
CP
Cody Pfister vs Sage Northcutt
Submission R2 0:41
SN
✓
Key takeaways
Rose Namajunas beat Paige VanZant by submission at 2:25 of round five in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the Chelsea in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, Michael Chiesa beat Jim Miller by submission at 2:57 of round two.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, three ended by knockout, six by submission and two on the judges' scorecards — nine stoppages in eleven fights. One of the two decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Danny Roberts, who stopped Nathan Coy at 2:46 of round one, and two of the nine finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Rose Namajunas's submission of Paige VanZant, 22 minutes and 25 seconds in. End to end, the eleven fights filled one hour and 49 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: six of its seven results came early, against three of the four above it. Tim Means (knockout, round two), Sergio Moraes (knockout, round three) and Aljamain Sterling (submission, round two) all closed before the judges were needed.
Two ranked fighters appeared. The only other ranked name was Aljamain Sterling, No. 4 at featherweight.
UFC Fight Pass carried all twelve bouts, split across a main card and one preliminary block.
