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Justin Gaethje beat Paddy Pimblett by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC 324 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Paddy Pimblett had come in as the division's No. 6. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Sean O'Malley beat Song Yadong, the division's No. 5, after three rounds at bantamweight.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, five ended by knockout and six on the judges' scorecards — five stoppages in eleven fights. Every decision was unanimous: not one result divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Alex Perez, who stopped Charles Johnson at 3:16 of round one, and three of the five finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Nikita Krylov's knockout of Modestas Bukauskas, 14 minutes and 57 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. Nikita Krylov (knockout, round three), Alex Perez (knockout, round one) and Josh Hokit (knockout, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
17 ranked fighters appeared, and three of them were in the top two bouts, among them champions Justin Gaethje and Kayla Harrison.
Nine weight classes were used, bantamweight most often with two bouts. Paramount+ carried all 14 bouts, split across a main card and two preliminary blocks.
