Key takeaways
Sean O'Malley beat Aljamain Sterling by knockout at 0:51 of round two in the main event of UFC 292 at the TD Garden in Boston. Aljamain Sterling had come in as the division's No. 4. In the co-main event, Zhang Weili beat Amanda Lemos, the division's No. 7, by unanimous decision after five rounds at women's strawweight.
Across the twelve bouts that produced a result, two ended by knockout, two by submission and eight on the judges' scorecards — four stoppages in twelve fights. One of the eight decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Gregory Rodrigues, who stopped Denis Tiuliulin at 1:43 of round one, and two of the four finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Kurt Holobaugh's submission of Austin Hubbard, 7 minutes and 39 seconds in. End to end, the twelve fights filled two hours and 30 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: three of its seven results came early, against one of the five above it. Gregory Rodrigues (knockout, round one), Kurt Holobaugh (submission, round two) and Karine Silva (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Ten ranked fighters appeared, and four of them were in the top two bouts.
Six weight classes were used, bantamweight most often with four bouts.
