Main card
FW
✓
Fabricio Werdum vs Travis Browne
Unanimous decision R3 5:00
TB
MG
✓
Mickey Gall vs CM Punk
Submission R1 2:14
CP
Key takeaways
Stipe Miocic beat Alistair Overeem by knockout at 4:27 of round one in the main event of UFC 203 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. In the co-main event, Fabricio Werdum beat Travis Browne by unanimous decision after three rounds.
Across the ten bouts that produced a result, three ended by knockout, three by submission and four on the judges' scorecards — six stoppages in ten fights. Two of the four decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Drew Dober, who stopped Jason Gonzalez at 1:45 of round one, and four of the six finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Nik Lentz's knockout of Michael McBride, 9 minutes and 17 seconds in. End to end, the ten fights filled one hour and 28 minutes of cage time.
The main card finished at the higher rate: three of five, against three of the five below it. Nik Lentz (knockout, round two), Drew Dober (knockout, round one) and Yancy Medeiros (submission, round two) all closed before the judges were needed.
One ranked fighters appeared. The only other ranked name was Jessica Andrade, No. 9 at women's strawweight.
