Key takeaways
Mansur Abdul-Malik beat Wes Schultz by knockout at 3:55 of round two in the main event of DWCS 8.1 at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, Rami Hamed beat Ding Meng by unanimous decision after three rounds at welterweight.
Across the five bouts that produced a result, four ended by knockout and one on the judges' scorecards — four stoppages in five fights. Every decision was unanimous: not one result divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Lone'er Kavanagh, who stopped An Tuan Ho at 2:25 of round one, and one of the four finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Bruno Lopes's knockout of Mikheil Sazhiniani, 9 minutes and 14 seconds in. End to end, the five fights filled 42 minutes of cage time.
One ranked fighters appeared. The only other ranked name was Lone'er Kavanagh, No. 6 at flyweight.
Five weight classes were used, middleweight most often with one bouts. UFC Fight Pass carried all five bouts.