Key takeaways
Paddy Pimblett beat Jared Gordon by unanimous decision after three rounds in the main event of UFC 282 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. In the co-main event, Santiago Ponzinibbio beat Alex Morono by knockout at 2:29 of round three at catchweight.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, six ended by knockout, four by submission and one on the judges' scorecards — ten stoppages in eleven fights. Every decision was unanimous: not one result divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Jairzinho Rozenstruik, who stopped Chris Daukaus after 23 seconds, and two of the ten finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Cameron Saaiman's knockout of Steven Koslow, 14 minutes and 13 seconds in. End to end, the eleven fights filled one hour and 46 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: seven of its seven results came early, against three of the four above it. Raul Rosas Jr. (submission, round one), Jairzinho Rozenstruik (knockout, round one) and Edmen Shahbazyan (knockout, round two) all closed before the judges were needed.
Seven ranked fighters appeared, and three of them were in the top two bouts.
Seven weight classes were used, middleweight most often with three bouts.
