Key takeaways
Max Holloway beat Dustin Poirier by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC 318 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Paulo Costa beat Roman Kopylov after three rounds at middleweight.
Across the 14 bouts that produced a result, three ended by knockout, three by submission and eight on the judges' scorecards — six stoppages in 14 fights. One of the eight decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Ateba Gautier, who stopped Robert Valentin at 1:10 of round one, and five of the six finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Carli Judice's knockout of Nicolle Caliari, 11 minutes and 30 seconds in. End to end, the 14 fights filled two hours and 38 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: six of its nine results came early, against no of the five above it. Ateba Gautier (knockout, round one), Islam Dulatov (knockout, round one) and Jimmy Crute (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Six ranked fighters appeared.
Eight weight classes were used, middleweight most often with four bouts.
