Key takeaways
Alistair Overeem beat Aleksei Oleinik by knockout at 4:45 of round one in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in Saint Petersburg. In the co-main event, Islam Makhachev beat Arman Tsarukyan, the division's No. 2, by unanimous decision after three rounds.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, five ended by knockout, one by submission and five on the judges' scorecards — six stoppages in eleven fights. One of the five decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Michal Oleksiejczuk, who stopped Gadzhimurad Antigulov after 44 seconds, and four of the six finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Shamil Abdurakhimov's knockout of Marcin Tybura, 8 minutes and 15 seconds in. End to end, the eleven fights filled one hour and 39 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: four of its six results came early, against two of the five above it. Alexander Yakovlev (submission, round two), Shamil Abdurakhimov (knockout, round two) and Michal Oleksiejczuk (knockout, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Five ranked fighters appeared, and two of them were in the top two bouts, among them champion Islam Makhachev.
