UFC Fight Night 159: Rodriguez vs. Stephens — Sept 21, 2019, Mexico City. ESPN+ 17. Rodriguez vs. Stephens NO CONTEST at 0:15 (accidental eye poke; Stephens couldn’t recover). MEXICO CITY CROWD RIOTS — bottles and ice thrown into cage! Moreno vs. Askarov SPLIT DRAW (Askarov debut; future FLW champion paths!). Peterson spinning back fist PoN. Craig RNC PoN. Esparza/Grasso FotN (home crowd Grasso).

UFC Fight Night 118: Cowboy vs. Till — October 21, 2017, Gdańsk Poland. Fight Pass exclusive. Till R1 TKO of Cerrone PoN (24 years old; biggest win). Conor McGregor caused incident coaching Lobov. Blachowicz standing RNC PoN (extremely rare). Kelleher/Stasiak FotN. Kowalkiewicz dominates. Football ultras cancelled Wieczorek fight. Attendance: 11,138. Gate: $677,000.

UFC Fight Night 109: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira — May 28, 2017, Stockholm Ericsson Globe. Gustafsson TKO’d Teixeira R5 with right uppercuts (FotN) — then PROPOSED TO HIS GIRLFRIEND IN THE OCTAGON (she said yes!). Fight was rebooked from FN69 June 2015. Hadzovic flying knee PoN. Velickovic late KO PoN. Oezdemir 2nd UFC win. Darren Till early career. 496k viewers.

UFC Fight Night 89: MacDonald vs. Thompson — June 18, 2016, TD Place Arena, Ottawa. First UFC in Ottawa. Thompson dominated MacDonald UD (50-45x2, 48-47) — 7th consecutive win, title shot earned. MacDonald’s last UFC fight (left for Bellator). Cerrone TKO PoN. Bossé/O’Connell FotN. Jotko 59-sec KO PoN. Attendance: 10,490.

UFC Fight Night 57: Edgar vs. Swanson — November 22, 2014, Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas. Frankie Edgar submitted Cub Swanson with 4 seconds left in round five — the latest finish in UFC history. Paige VanZant’s Fight of the Night debut. Edson Barboza dismantled Bobby Green. Attendance: 10,131. Gate: $670,022.

UFC Fight Night 49: Henderson vs. dos Anjos — August 23, 2014, BOK Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rafael dos Anjos KO'd Benson Henderson with a straight left in round one — a defining statement win that put RDA directly in the UFC lightweight title picture. Ben Saunders completed the first omoplata submission finish in UFC history. Thales Leites' shocking KO of Carmont. Max Holloway continued his run. No Fight of the Night — four Performance of Night bonuses.

UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski — February 11, 2023, RAC Arena, Perth. Islam Makhachev retained the lightweight title against Alexander Volkanovski in the most-anticipated champ-vs-champ fight of 2023. Makhachev won via unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 49-46) in a razor-close fight that most observers had for Volkanovski. Yair Rodriguez stopped Josh Emmett in the co-main. The card produced one of the highest Australian UFC gates in promotion history.

UFC 281: Adesanya vs. Pereira — November 12, 2022, Madison Square Garden, NYC. Alex Pereira finished Israel Adesanya with a fifth-round TKO from behind on the scorecards, becoming the first man to beat Adesanya in MMA and starting the Pereira championship era. Zhang Weili reclaimed the strawweight title with a second-round rear-naked choke of Carla Esparza. Dustin Poirier vs Michael Chandler stole the night.

Introduction UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington. May 12, 2018. Jeunesse Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Amanda Nunes made her third UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship defence, stopping Raquel Pennington with hammer fists at 2:36 of round five. UFC 224 was the first event in UFC history headlined by two openly gay fighters. The fight’s most discussed moment came at the end of round four: Pennington, her nose broken and face battered, told her corner she wanted to stop. Her co

Introduction Derrick Lewis is the most prolific knockout artist in UFC heavyweight history. A 6'3", 265 lb striker out of Houston, Texas, with the most knockouts in UFC heavyweight history (15) and tied for the most KO wins in UFC history overall (alongside Vitor Belfort and Anderson Silva), Lewis is the modern UFC's heavyweight cult-hero: the man who finished Travis Browne, Marcin Tybura, Alexander Volkov and Curtis Blaydes with single-punch counterattacks in the final minut

Introduction Glover Teixeira is the oldest first-time UFC champion in history. A Brazilian-American jiu-jitsu black belt out of Sobrália, Minas Gerais, who emigrated to Connecticut at age 19 to work landscaping jobs and support his family back home, Teixeira built one of the longest, most patient title runs in modern UFC light-heavyweight history. The path was eighteen professional fights and 22 UFC appearances before the championship — a 2014 title-shot loss to Jon Jones at

Introduction Shavkat 'Nomad' Rakhmonov is the undefeated 19-0 UFC welterweight contender, former M-1 Global Welterweight Champion, first Kazakh fighter to sign a contract with the UFC, and the foundational Central Asian UFC welterweight pop-culture branding figure of the early 2020s. The Sho'rchi, Uzbekistan-born ethnic Kazakh submission-grappling specialist — Steppe Wolves MMA Almaty product, member of the Altynbai clan of the Alimuly tribe of the Junior Zhuz, brother of M

Introduction Zhang "Magnum" Weili is the most accomplished Chinese fighter in UFC history and the first Chinese UFC champion in promotion history. The Hebei native won the UFC Women's Strawweight Championship twice — first in August 2019 with a 42-second TKO of Jessica Andrade, and again in November 2022 with a submission win over Carla Esparza. Her UFC 248 war with Joanna Jędrzejczyk is widely considered the greatest women's MMA fight ever and was inducted into the UFC Hal