Main card
RN
✓
5Rose Namajunas vs Zhang Weili1
Split decision R5 5:00
ZW
Key takeaways
Kamaru Usman beat Colby Covington by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC 268 at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Rose Namajunas beat Zhang Weili, the division's No. 1, after five rounds.
Across the 14 bouts that produced a result, seven ended by knockout and seven on the judges' scorecards — seven stoppages in 14 fights. One of the seven decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to King Green, who stopped Al Iaquinta at 2:25 of round one, and three of the seven finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Marlon Vera's knockout of Frankie Edgar, 13 minutes and 50 seconds in. End to end, the 14 fights filled two hours and 53 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: six of its nine results came early, against one of the five above it. Alex Pereira (knockout, round two), King Green (knockout, round one) and Chris Curtis (knockout, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Eight ranked fighters appeared, and three of them were in the top two bouts, among them champion Justin Gaethje.
