Main card
MR
Mauricio Rua vs Alexander Gustafsson
Unanimous decision R3 5:00
AG
✓
BP
BJ Penn vs Rory MacDonald
Unanimous decision R3 5:00
RM
✓
Key takeaways
Benson Henderson beat Nate Diaz by unanimous decision after five rounds in the main event of UFC on FOX at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The co-main event also went to the scorecards: Alexander Gustafsson beat Mauricio Rua after three rounds.
Across the eleven bouts that produced a result, four ended by knockout, one by submission 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 Yves Edwards, who stopped Jeremy Stephens at 1:55 of round one, and two of the five finishes came inside the opening round. The longest was Abel Trujillo's knockout of Marcus LeVesseur, 8 minutes and 56 seconds in. End to end, the eleven fights filled two hours and 11 minutes of cage time.
The preliminary card out-finished the main card: four of its seven results came early, against one of the four above it. Yves Edwards (knockout, round one), Daron Cruickshank (knockout, round two) and Abel Trujillo (knockout, round two) all closed before the judges were needed.
