Key takeaways
Patricky Freire beat Josh Thomson by knockout at 0:40 of round two in the main event of Bellator 172 at the SAP Center at San Jose in San Jose. In the co-main event, Cheick Kongo beat Oli Thompson by unanimous decision after three rounds.
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 Mauricio Alonso, who stopped Josh Koscheck at 4:42 of round one, and one of the four finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Veta Arteaga's knockout of Brooke Mayo, 14 minutes and 4 seconds in. End to end, the five fights filled 47 minutes of cage time.