Main card
VS
✓
CValentina Shevchenko vs Zhang Weili1
Women's flyweight
Unanimous decision R5 5:00
ZW
Key takeaways
Islam Makhachev beat Jack Della Maddalena by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC 322 at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. Jack Della Maddalena had come in as the division's No. 4. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Valentina Shevchenko beat Zhang Weili, the division's No. 1, after five rounds at women's flyweight.
Across the 14 bouts that produced a result, five ended by knockout, two by submission and seven on the judges' scorecards — seven stoppages in 14 fights. Every decision was unanimous: not one result divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Benoit Saint Denis, who stopped Beneil Dariush after 16 seconds, and three of the seven finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Bo Nickal's knockout of Rodolfo Vieira, 12 minutes and 24 seconds in. End to end, the 14 fights filled two hours and 50 minutes of cage time.
The main card finished at the higher rate: three of five, against four of the nine below it. Bo Nickal (knockout, round three), Erin Blanchfield (submission, round two) and Kyle Daukaus (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
16 ranked fighters appeared, and four of them were in the top two bouts, among them champions Islam Makhachev and Valentina Shevchenko.
Six weight classes were used, middleweight most often with four bouts.
