Main card
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7Irene Aldana vs Yana Santos6
Knockout R1 4:35
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Key takeaways
Dustin Poirier beat Conor McGregor by knockout at 5:00 of round one in the main event of UFC 264 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, Gilbert Burns beat Stephen Thompson by unanimous decision after three rounds.
Across the twelve bouts that produced a result, six ended by knockout, one by submission and five on the judges' scorecards — seven stoppages in twelve fights. One of the five decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Tai Tuivasa, who stopped Greg Hardy at 1:07 of round one, and five of the seven finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Sean O'Malley's knockout of Kris Moutinho, 14 minutes and 33 seconds in. End to end, the twelve fights filled one hour and 54 minutes of cage time.
The main card finished at the higher rate: four of five, against three of the seven below it. Ilia Topuria (knockout, round one), Dricus Du Plessis (knockout, round two) and Zhalgas Zhumagulov (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Five ranked fighters appeared.
