Key takeaways
Valentina Shevchenko beat Liz Carmouche by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC Fight Night at the Antel Arena in Montevideo. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Vicente Luque beat Mike Perry after three rounds.
Across the 13 bouts that produced a result, two ended by knockout, three by submission and eight on the judges' scorecards — five stoppages in 13 fights. Three of the eight decisions divided the judges.
The quickest finish belonged to Veronica Hardy, who stopped Polyana Viana at 1:09 of round one, and three of the five finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Volkan Oezdemir's knockout of Ilir Latifi, 9 minutes and 31 seconds in. End to end, the 13 fights filled two hours and 37 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: three of its seven results came early, against two of the six above it. Ciryl Gane (submission, round one), Rogerio Bontorin (knockout, round one) and Veronica Hardy (submission, round one) all closed before the judges were needed.
Three ranked fighters appeared, among them champion Valentina Shevchenko.
ESPN+ carried all 13 bouts, split across a main card and one preliminary block.
