Main card
BD
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14Beneil Dariush vs Drakkar Klose
Knockout R2 1:00
DK
Key takeaways
Israel Adesanya beat Yoel Romero by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC 248 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Zhang Weili beat Joanna Jedrzejczyk after five rounds.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, three ended by knockout, two by submission and six on the judges' scorecards — five stoppages in eleven fights. Three of the six decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Sean O'Malley, who stopped Jose Quinonez at 2:02 of round one, and three of the five finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Gerald Meerschaert's submission of Deron Winn, 12 minutes and 13 seconds in. End to end, the eleven fights filled two hours and 16 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: four of its six results came early, against one of the five above it. Sean O'Malley (knockout, round one), Rodolfo Vieira (submission, round one) and Gerald Meerschaert (submission, round three) all closed before the judges were needed.
Four ranked fighters appeared, and two of them were in the top two bouts.
