Main card
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Junior Dos Santos vs Jairzinho Rozenstruik
Knockout R2 3:47
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Key takeaways
Stipe Miocic beat Daniel Cormier by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC 252 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, Marlon Vera beat Sean O'Malley, the division's No. 2, by knockout at 4:40 of round one.
Across the ten bouts that produced a result, four ended by knockout, one by submission and five on the judges' scorecards — five stoppages in ten fights. Every decision was unanimous: not one result divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Virna Jandiroba, who stopped Felice Herrig at 1:44 of round one, and three of the five finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Daniel Pineda's knockout of Herbert Burns, 9 minutes and 37 seconds in. End to end, the ten fights filled one hour and 54 minutes of cage time.
The main card finished at the higher rate: three of five, against two of the five below it. Virna Jandiroba (submission, round one) and Chris Daukaus (knockout, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Four ranked fighters appeared, and two of them were in the top two bouts.
