Main card
SY
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Sodiq Yusuff vs Don Shainis
Featherweight
Submission R1 0:30
DS
Key takeaways
Yan Xiaonan beat Mackenzie Dern by majority decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Randy Brown beat Francisco Trinaldo after three rounds at welterweight.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, three ended by knockout, three 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 Sodiq Yusuff, who stopped Don Shainis after 30 seconds, and four of the six finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Daniel Santos's knockout of John Castaneda, 9 minutes and 28 seconds in. End to end, the eleven fights filled one hour and 53 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: five of its six results came early, against one of the five above it. Daniel Santos (knockout, round two), Joaquim Silva (knockout, round two) and Brendan Allen (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Four ranked fighters appeared, and two of them were in the top two bouts, among them champion Mackenzie Dern.
Eight weight classes were used, bantamweight most often with two bouts. ESPN+ carried all eleven bouts, split across a main card and one preliminary block.
