Key takeaways
Conor McGregor beat Eddie Alvarez by knockout at 3:04 of round two in the main event of UFC 205 at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. In the co-main event, Joanna Jedrzejczyk beat Karolina Kowalkiewicz by unanimous decision after five rounds.
Across the ten bouts that produced a result, four ended by knockout, one by submission and five on the judges' scorecards — five stoppages in ten fights. One of the five decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Vicente Luque, who stopped Belal Muhammad at 1:19 of round one, and two of the five finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Khabib Nurmagomedov's submission of Michael Johnson, 12 minutes and 31 seconds in. End to end, the ten fights filled two hours and 1 minutes of cage time.
The main card finished at the higher rate: two of four, against three of the six below it. Khabib Nurmagomedov (submission, round three), Tim Boetsch (knockout, round one) and Vicente Luque (knockout, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Three ranked fighters appeared.
