UFC 320 Live Winners and Losers, Results
Seven months ago, it was different for Alex Pereira.
The Brazilian striking star was a two-weight UFC champion on a five-fight win streak with big plans of perhaps invading a third weight class. And then he met light heavyweight challenger Magomed Ankalaev, and it all came apart.
Pereira was out-struck, outmuscled, and ultimately outpointed by the burly Russian in a main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, where they returned for a title rematch atop a 14-bout card whose five-bout main portion was packaged as UFC 320.
The show's co-main event was also a championship bout, matching bantamweight king Merab Dvalishvili in his third defense against No. 4 contender Cory Sandhagen, who'd won four of five since a foiled shot at an interim title four years ago.
The B/R combat team was in place to take it all in and deliver a real-time list of the show's definitive winners and losers. Take a look at what we came up with and drop a thought of your own in the app comments.
Winner: Revenge and Retribution
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This time, there was no doubt about the outcome.
Pereira suggested before Saturday's rematch that he thought he'd done enough to win the first one, and he looked this time like a guy who was anxious to prove it convincingly.
The Brazilian was on the front foot from the start, landed a hard right hand to get Ankalaev wobbled, and quickly finished matters when the Russian desperately shot for a takedown, landing hard elbows until referee Herb Dean intervened after just 80 seconds.
"He went after him like he had no business in there," analyst Joe Rogan said. "He went right to him like he had no fear at all and put him right away."
Pereira, now a winner in six of eight title bouts across two divisions, said it was no shock.
"I told everyone I was not in a good condition last time. Nobody believed it. You saw it," he said. "It didn't surprise me."
It was Ankalaev's first loss since he was submitted by Paul Craig in his UFC debut in 2018, ending a streak of 12 wins, a draw, and a no-contest in 14 fights.
"This is the worst possible matchup for him in the division, and he finished him in a minute and 20 seconds," analyst Daniel Cormier said. "He showed that he was extremely confident and that he thought Magomed Ankalaev didn't belong in there with him."
Winner: Lather, Rinse, Repeat
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Stop us if you've heard this before.
Merab Dvalishvili, the reigning bantamweight champ since he toppled Sean O'Malley 13 months ago, successfully defended his title for the third time with a workmanlike decision victory in which he assaulted both his opponent and the UFC's takedown record book.
The 34-year-old took Sandhagen down 20 times to both pass 100 for his career in the promotion and establish a single-fight record for the 135-pound weight class.
"I am a machine. I keep getting better. I train hard," the champion said. "I feel like I'm just beginning. I'm just starting. But the technique, I'm just learning."
Sandhagen earned the opening round with savvy striking and effective use of distance before Dvalishvili took over with some striking of his own and nearly got a stoppage as he battered a clearly compromised challenger with elbows and punches.
"My plan was to knock him out," Dvalishvili said. "Almost. Almost."
The takedown count climbed steadily across the final three rounds as Sandhagen was reduced to intermittent single shots in the fleeting moments he was on his feet. The win was Dvalishvili's 14th in a row since he'd dropped two straight to start his run with the company, and the streak is the fourth-longest in UFC history.
"Merab Dvalishvili," Cormier said, "is making the hardest thing in the world to do look easy."
Winner: Combative Chaos
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Just when it looked safe to start shoveling dirt on the career of ex-205-pound champ Jiří Procházka, the popular samurai-inspired Czech veteran made a statement.
Surely down on the scorecards after two ineffective rounds against recent title challenger Khalil Rountree Jr., Procházka created chaos just in time to save his contender status and didn't stop until his fourth-ranked foe was face-down on the mat.
The KO win came at 3:04 of Round 3 after a series of kicks, elbows, and punches left Rountree exhausted, bloodied, and finished for the first time since 2019 in a non-title fight.
It was Procházka's third win in five fights since his title reign—which had begun with a fifth-round defeat of Glover Teixeira in 2022—was ended by a serious shoulder injury.
He'd lost two subsequent championship tries, both by second-round finish, against Pereira.
"It was necessary to be really in the game, and in the here and now and find a way," he said. "I need to be in the chaos, and there I find the calm. I need a really dangerous opponent. My opponent makes my performance."
Winner: Exceeding the Original
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Every now and then, the sequel is better than the original.
"Moroccan Devil" Youssef Zalal was just 3-3-1 across seven fights in the UFC from 2020 to 2022, but his performances since returning from a three-fight stint in the lesser-known Sparta Combat League have elevated him to potential champion status.
The beat went on in Saturday's meeting with No. 8 featherweight Josh Emmett, who was taken down in the first minute and drawn into a vulnerable position that allowed Zalal to seize his left arm and draw the verbal tap that signaled Jason Herzog to end things via armbar at 1:44.
"Josh Emmett has been in fights with a lot of people," blow-by-blow man Jon Anik said, "and nobody's done him like that."
It lifted Zalal to 5-0 with four finishes in his second UFC stint and is almost certain to tick him up a few notches from the No. 9 contender position at which he arrived.
"This was the strategy," he said. "I'm too smart for these guys. I move way too good. I set up everything too good."
Winner: Changing Roles
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So, you think Joe Pyfer is just a power guy, eh? Think again.
The Philadelphia slugger showed his mat chops in the main-card opener against 14th-ranked middleweight Abus Magomedov, enduring the German-based contender's grind in the first five minutes to dish out his own horizontal punishment in the second on the way to securing a submission by rear-naked choke.
"He beat my a-s the first round," Pyfer said. "But we were all right, we knew he'd get tired. My coaches said, 'When he starts getting tired, you're gonna hear that sh-t.'"
Pyfer got his audible cue and pressed the action early in the second, rattling Magomedov with a hard right hand and putting his black belt-worthy jiu-jitsu skills to work while initially chasing a triangle choke before locking in the rear-naked choke that ended it at 1:44.
It was Pyfer's sixth win in seven UFC fights and third straight since a Fight Night main event loss to Jack Hermansson in February 2024. He arrived at the promotion after a two-fight stint on the Contender Series, losing by finish in 2020 before returning to win in 2022.
"He really showed the full range of his skills," Rogan said.
Winner: Manifesting Menace
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Leave it to Rogan to paint the perfect picture.
"This guy," he said, referring to middleweight phenom Ateba Gautier, "is terrifying."
It's a good bet that Gautier's latest opponent, short-notice sub Treston Vines, would agree with the analyst/podcaster's assessment.
Vines was dropped by a knee to the forehead, staggered with a series of elbows, and eventually pummeled with ground strikes until referee Herb Dean humanely waved it off after just 101 seconds of competition.
"I never hit myself," Gautier said, "so I don't know if I have power or not."
It was his third straight UFC win after a Contender Series arrival last year and his ninth win in 10 career fights, including seven by KO inside of one round since his lone loss—by split decision to Glenn Willians in the Budo Fighting Championship promotion.
Vines subbed in when Ozzy Diaz was removed due to injury.
"(Gautier is) one of the best prospects in the sport," Rogan said.
Winner: Laughing Last
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Mock your opponent. But do so at your own peril.
Unbeaten Korean prospect JooSang Yoo gestured and openly chided Daniel Santos after the Brazilian missed a series of spinning strike attempts in the first round, but it was Santos smiling in the end after he finished his cheeky foe early in the second.
A training partner of ex-lightweight champ Charles Oliveira, Santos burst off the stool to begin the second round and pressed forward with a flurry in which he landed a looping left hook that sent Yoo tumbling to the canvas along the fence.
Santos immediately pounced and let loose with a series of right-hand strikes that prompted a rescue from referee Herb Dean just 21 seconds into the round.
It was his fourth straight win after a loss in his UFC debut in 2022. Yoo, meanwhile, lost for the first time after nine pro wins, including one at UFC 316 in June.
"Put some respect on our name," Santos said. "When Chute Boxe is in front of you, you better respect us."
Loser: Scorecard Suspicion
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Maybe the UFC just isn't Patchy Mix's thing after all.
The ex-Bellator champ was flat-out beaten in his octagonal debut four months ago, and his luck didn't get any better in Saturday's return, with what appeared to be a workmanlike distance victory transformed by scorecard sorcery into a split-decision loss.
Octagonal newcomer Jakub Wikłacz took advantage of dubious work from judges Derek Cleary and Mike Bell, each of whom found reason to give him the second round and thus tipped the scales in his direction while overruling dissenting judge Ben Cartlidge.
The B/R scorecard agreed with Cartlidge, giving Mix the second and third rounds and echoing the post-fight thoughts of Cormier.
"Patchy Mix won that fight," he said. "I really don't understand how stuff like this happens."
Mix landed 25 significant strikes and two takedowns and ran up 77 seconds of control time in the second round. He had five takedowns and a 63 percent land rate with his significant strikes over 15 minutes, but is still 0-2 in the company after going 20-1 prior to his arrival.
"You gotta think they'll be talking about these scorecards on podcasts next week," Anik said.
Winner: Dramatic Destruction
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Give it up for Edmen Shahbazyan's sense of drama.
The 27-year-old "Golden Boy" was on the short end of striking and grappling exchanges with Andre Muniz throughout the first round and looked on his way to a difficult night in their middleweight encounter as the opening five minutes wound down.
But he came out on top of one last trade of blows, landing a left hook that wobbled Muniz and a right uppercut that dropped him and enabled a subsequent torrent of ground strikes that prompted referee Mark Smith's intervention at 4:58 of the first.
It was a third straight win and ninth in 14 UFC outings for Shahbazyan, who debuted with the company at age 20 and continues to rebound from a stretch of five losses (four by finishes) in seven fights from 2020 to 2024.
He's now got seven finishes of his own at 185 pounds, ranking him second among active fighters in the weight class. Muniz had won six of nine in the UFC after a pair of Contender Series wins in 2018 and 2019.
"I'm going to keep getting better and keep doing better things," Shahbazyan said, before making the requisite plea for a performance bonus. "I hope that was 50 G's."
Loser: In Too Deep
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Turns out not everyone can play in the major leagues.
Kazakh welterweight Nikolay Veretennikov is the UFC embodiment of that reality after Saturday night's decision loss to Punahele Soriano in the early prelim finale.
The 35-year-old was on an eight-fight win streak in smaller promotions prior to a Contender Series loss in 2021, then won three in a row in another lesser company prior to reaching the MMA's largest entity in 2024 and subsequently dropping two of three fights.
Getting the short end of three 30-27 scores against Soriano was his third loss in four official octagonal tries, and he wasn't appreciably close to changing the result, beyond a desperate try for a guillotine in the final minute after he'd been controlled for 12 of the first 14.
Soriano landed 39 significant strikes to Veretennikov's nine and took him down four times for an overall control time that reached 12:35.
Winner: Prelim Punishment
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Some advice for future Yana Santos opponents: Don't miss weight.
The Russian bantamweight chastised imminent foe Macy Chiasson for coming in heavy on Friday, then punished her in the cage on Saturday, using knees, kicks, and elbows to inflict heavy damage on the way to a grueling unanimous early prelim decision.
"That was certainly as urgent as we've ever seen her," Anik said of Santos, who debuted with the promotion in a title fight in 2018 and arrived this time still ranked 10th at 135 pounds—five slots below Chiasson at No. 5.
The combatants spoke and embraced shortly after the final horn, before the official scorecards were read that gave her a trio of 29-28 advantages, reflecting Chiasson's late and ultimately foiled bid for a submission via rear-naked choke.
The Santos-Chiasson scrap was the second and final women's fight among the 14 on the show, coming shortly after the card-opener in which Veronica Hardy won all three rounds against flyweight foe Brogan Walker.
Winner: Grinding it Out
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Bantamweight prospect Farid Basharat had it all his way for two rounds against veteran Chris Gutierrez and seemed on the way to an easy three-round prelim decision.
But the 34-year-old wasn't going to let him go without testing his mettle.
Gutierrez got the younger man to the ground and consistently challenged his gas tank across the final five minutes, forcing the Afghan to earn the unanimous verdict that he ultimately got with three matching scores of 29-28.
Basharat was expected to handle business on the mat but found success striking throughout, which prompted Cormier to suggest he could wind up with a victory by solely striking his way across 15 minutes.
He wound up landing 41 significant strikes to Gutierrez's 31, had two takedowns to his opponent's one, and earned more than three minutes in positional control time.
"You cannot let these young guys lose their respect for what your gift is," Cormier said, "then they become a problem."
Full Card Results
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Main Card
Alex Pereira def. Magomed Ankalaev by TKO (elbows), 1:20, Round 1
Merab Dvalishvili def. Cory Sandhagen by unanimous decision (49-45, 49-45, 49-46)
Jiří Procházka def. Khalil Rountree Jr. by KO (punches), 3:04, Round 3
Youssef Zalal def. Josh Emmett by submission (armbar), 1:38, Round 1
Joe Pyfer def. Abus Magomedov by submission (rear-naked choke), 1:44, Round 2
Preliminary Card
Ateba Gautier def. Treston Vines by TKO (punches), 1:41, Round 1
Daniel Santos def. JooSang Yoo by TKO (punch), 0:21, Round 2
Jakub Wikłacz def. Patchy Mix by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Edmen Shahbazyan def. Andre Muniz by TKO (elbows), 4:58, Round 1
Early Preliminary Card
Punahele Soriano def. Nikolay Veretennikov by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Yana Santos def. Macy Chiasson by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Farid Basharat def. Chris Gutierrez by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Ramiz Brahimaj def. Austin Vanderford by submission (guillotine choke), 2:24, Round 2
Veronica Hardy def. Brogan Walker by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
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