Key takeaways
Kamaru Usman beat Joaquin Buckley by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Joaquin Buckley had come in as the division's No. 10. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Rose Namajunas beat Miranda Maverick, the division's No. 9, after three rounds at women's flyweight.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, three ended by knockout and eight on the judges' scorecards — three stoppages in eleven fights. Every decision was unanimous: not one result divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Malcolm Wellmaker, who stopped Kris Moutinho at 2:37 of round one, and one of the three finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Phil Rowe's knockout of Ange Loosa, 14 minutes and 3 seconds in. End to end, the eleven fights filled two hours and 32 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: three of its six results came early, against no of the five above it. Malcolm Wellmaker (knockout, round one), Jose Ochoa (knockout, round two) and Phil Rowe (knockout, round three) all closed before the judges were needed.
Six ranked fighters appeared, and four of them were in the top two bouts.
Six weight classes were used, welterweight most often with three bouts.
