UFC 326 Live Winners and Losers, Results
Nearly 4,000 days and 1,500 miles later, it was reunion time.
Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira, who topped a Fight Night card as featherweights a decade ago in Saskatchewan, got together again in the main event of a numbered cardโlabeled as UFC 326โat T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Holloway won the first one, by TKO, in 99 seconds.
Now lightweights, they battled for the promotion's much-hyped "BMF" title belt, which Holloway took from Justin Gaethje in 2024 and defended against Dustin Poirier in 2025. The "Blessed" one lost a bid for the featherweight championship against Ilia Topuria in between those victories, but was 4-1 since completing a 145-pound trilogy against Alex Volkanovski in 2022.
Oliveira, a former champ at 155 pounds, had split six bouts since a successful title defense against Gaethje at UFC 274. He'd won a vacant belt against Michael Chandler and beat Poirier and Gaethje in succession before losing it to Islam Makhachev. He lost a subsequent title try against Topuria last summer, too, but choked out Mateusz Gamrot in Round 2 in his most recent bout five months ago.
B/R's combat team was in place for the headliner and the 11 bouts preceding it with an eye on delivering a definitive, real-time list of the show's winners and losers.
Take a look at what we came up with and drop a thought in the app comments.
Winner: Beyond Baddest
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Cue up the revisionist history.
Lost amid the highlights of Holloway's savage KO of Gaethje and his retirement send-off of Poirier was the reality that Oliveira had finished the same two men, years earlier, while defending his full-fledged lightweight championship.
So, to suggest with any confidence that "Do Bronxs" would be in way over his head in their return bout in Vegas was not only wrong, it bordered on ridiculous.
The 2-to-1 underdog proved that for nearly every moment from the opening tap to the final horn, taking Holloway down at will and dishing out all the impactful punishmentโincluding a hard right hand after the rivals went to the center of the cage in the final seconds.
It wasn't a street fight. But it was a comprehensive MMA beatdown.
Even if the car crash-hungry masses in the crowd didn't appreciate it.
"It couldn't be any other way," Oliveira said. "I had to come here and dominate."
Winner: Navigating Menace
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Caio Borralho knew the danger that was in front of him.
The Brazilian middleweight figured to have an advantage from distance thanks to superior speed and striking technique, but the prospect of tying up with Dutch grappling ace Reinier de Ridder was not something he was exactly reveling in.
So he went with his strengths, avoided prolonged damage on the ground, and gutted it out down the stretch to survive his way to a unanimous decision in the co-main event.
All three judges scored a shutout for Borralho, while the B/R card saw it 2-1 his way after giving the second to de Ridder, thanks to an early takedown and extended control time.
Regardless, it was a quality bounce-back for the winner, who'd lost a wide nod to Nassourdine Imavov atop a Fight Night show in September.
"It's the comeback season, and no one is going to stop the Fighting Nerds," Borralho said. "I'm here to be the champion. I dominated. That's what I'm going to keep doing here."
Winner: Proof of Prodigy
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If Raul Rosas Jr. was what the UFC said he was, he had to beat Rob Font.
The 21-year-old grappling prodigy passed his most significant octagonal test to date in a main card star turn, taking the promotion's 13th-ranked bantamweight to the floor 16 times in a methodical, if not spectacular, three-round suffocation.
All three judges gave Rosas all three rounds, matching B/R's card.
Font started well enough in the opening round while utilizing his boxing skills, but Rosas began turning the tide when he secured a single-leg takedown halfway through the first round on the way to better than 10 total minutes of positional control time.
It was his sixth win in seven UFC bouts and fifth in a row since an upset loss to Christian Rodriguez three years ago.
"With his style, his aggression and his pace, he's going to be tough for a lot of guys in the top 15," analyst Daniel Cormier said. "It's very difficult to deal with. And he's very good at not taking damage."
Winner: Perseverance and Punishment
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Just when it looked like 37-year-old Drew Dober was being outdone by a fellow veteran in Michael Johnson, the lightweight KO artist leaned into his strength.
And one hard punch later, his willingness to face fear paid off.
"I've been such a fan of him," Dober said. "I was scared sh*tless coming in here."
It didn't seem so when Dober flicked a right hand and followed it with a straight left that left Johnson stiff as a board on the canvas, and vulnerable to the follow-up ground shot that landed before Kerry Hatley intervened at 1:53 of the second.
"I have that punching power as a gift," Dober said. "But now I have to be intelligent and accurate, and I found that in here."
Winner: Rematch Revenge
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Massive middleweight Gregory Rodrigues was dumped in one round by Brunno Ferreira when the Brazilian rivals met three years ago, so he was particularly motivated to reverse that result when the two men got back together in Saturday's main card opener.
Consider it done. With more than two minutes to spare.
Rodrigues was patient through the opening minute but devastating when he finally shot his shot, leaving Ferreira defenseless with a single right hand that ended matters at 1:47.
Ferreira, who'd won in 4:13 at UFC 283, was moving forward and switched stances from orthodox to southpaw, creating the opening that Rodrigues exploited this time.
"(My coach was saying) 'Take your time. Don't rush. Let's see what he has, work on defense,'" Rodrigues said. "'And when you find the time, just throw the right hand.' So that's what I did."
Loser: Feature Flop
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Just because a fight is the prelim feature doesn't mean it'll be exciting.
That was the case when it came to bantamweights Xiao Long and Cody Garbrandt, whose 15 minutes together will be remembered for the Chinese fighter's gestures, a restless crowd veering between boos and "USA" chants, and a particularly brutal low blow.
Garbrandt was spitting up during a two-plus minute recovery time after a low kick early in Round 3, then took more time after Long landed a low knee in the following exchange.
Referee Herb Dean deducted a point for each foul, leaving Garbrandt able to escape with a unanimous decisionโvia three scores of 28-27โdespite winning just one of three rounds.
The win was Garbrandt's 10th in the UFC and 15th of his career, while Long fell for the third time in four UFC appearances since a loss on the Contender Series in 2021.
Winner: Dynamite Debut
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OK, this Alberto Montes kid seems legit.
The Venezuelan finally stepped in for a long-delayed official UFC debut and didn't disappoint, locking Ricky Turcios into a d'arce choke and putting the scrappy Texan to sleep just 40 seconds into the second round.
Montes seized his foe's neck from a standing position with his right arm, then dropped to the mat, rolled, and cinched in with his left, squeezing until Turcios was left semi-conscious and required a rescue from Hatley. ย
It was his 12th win in 13 pro fights, came five months after a Contender Series finish, and earned breathy raves from analyst Joe Rogan.
"That was so beautiful. (Turcios) didn't even have a chance to tap," Rogan said. "As good a UFC debut as you could hope for."
Loser: Subpar Streaking
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Meanwhile, newcomer Donte Johnson needs more proof of concept.
The former college football player-turned-heavyweight-turned-middleweight was a split-scorecard winner in his prelim bout against short-notice veteran Cody Brundage, but the reviews will be as much about what Brundage wasn't as about what Johnson was.
Brundage was a TKO loser in Australia in late January and took the fight when Johnson's original foe dropped out. He looked well enough through Round 1 after scoring a takedown and chasing an arm triangle, but his failure to lock in the finish accentuated a failing gas tank through the final two rounds and allowed Johnson's super work rate to decide it.
Johnson landed 84 strikes to Brundage's 34 and defended five of seven takedown tries while improving to 8-0 as a pro and 2-0 in the UFC, earning two 2-1 nods in rounds to offset a third scorecard that saw it 2-1 for his opponent.
B/R agreed with the majority and had it 29-28 for Johnson, too.
Loser: Marketing Misfire
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Nicknames are good for marketing. But sometimes that's all they are.
Case in point: Mongolian flyweight Nyamjargal Tumendemberel, whose tongue-twisting first and last names were separated by a hyped-up "Art of Knockout" label.
Though the 27-year-old did emerge from a prelim against Cody Durden with a well-deserved unanimous decision, his workmanlike, takedown and grappling-heavy approach leaned far more toward methodical than menacing.
In fact, Tumendemberel actually landed fewer overall strikes than his American foe but more than made up for it with four takedowns and nearly seven minutes of control.
The win was the 10th of his career, a total that now includes two decisions, six submissions and just two KOs.
Loser: Dimension Discrepancies
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It was borderline unfair for Jesus Aguilar.
Though he and Sumudaerji weighed in as flyweights, his Chinese opponent's four-inch edge in height and nearly 10-inch gap in reach made it nearly impossible for the Mexican to do much beyond flailing and hoping on the way to a three-round shutout loss.
Aguilar arrived with four wins in six UFC fights after a Contender Series debut in 2022, but his ineffectiveness by every measure drew some in-fight pity from Rogan after the fighter missed a particularly wild strike attempt and went face-first into the cage.
Aguilar was on the short end of tallies in significant strikes (61-38), takedowns (4-1), and control time (2:36 to 2:05).
"He has a disadvantage in reach, but he also has a disadvantage in technique," Rogan said. "So, he's kind of in a no man's land."
Loser: Maintaining Momentum
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Well, now Luke Fernandez knows how it feels.
The unbeaten New Jersey-based light heavyweight made his official UFC debut after five finishes in six fights, including four inside the opening round and a 15-second wipeout in his Contender Series spot five months ago.
He seemed poised for a seventh straight win after landing 19 of the first 20 head strikes on Rodolfo Bellato, but found himself on the receiving end when he was clipped by a left hook and pummeled into a shell by Hatley until Hatley intervened at 2:42.
It was Bellato's second win in five UFC starts and first since a debut in 2023 that was followed by a draw, a no-contest, and a unanimous decision loss.
Loser: Contender Calamity
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So far, so bad for guys with gaudy records.
Rafael Tobias, a first-round Contender Series winner in September and possessor of a 14-1 mark heading into Saturday, was slow, stiff, and seemingly unprepared for a versatile opponent while dropping a unanimous nod to underdog foe Diyar Nurgozhay.
He hadn't lost since a TKO defeat in the LFA promotion in 2023.
Also a Contender Series winner from back in 2024, Nurgozhay had been submitted in two subsequent UFC appearances but was able to land single punches at will and escaped a perilous spot after Tobias got him to the mat after landing a hard right in Round 2.
The Kazakh won all three rounds on one scorecard and two of three on the others.
Full Card Results
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Main Card
Charles Oliveira def. Max Holloway by unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45)
Caio Borralho def. Reinier de Ridder by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Raul Rosas Jr. def. Rob Font by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Drew Dober def. Michael Johnson by TKO (punch), 1:53, Round 2
Gregory Rodrigues def. Brunno Ferreira by KO (punch), 1:47, Round 1
Preliminary Card
Cody Garbrandt def. Xiao Long by unanimous decision (28-27, 28-27, 28-27)
Donte Johnson def. Cody Brundage by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
Alberto Montes def. Ricky Turcios by submission (d'arce choke), 0:40, Round 2
Nyamjargal Tumendemberel def. Cody Durden by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Early Preliminary Card
Sumudaerji def. Jesus Aguilar by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Diyar Nurgozhay def. Rafael Tobias by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Rodolfo Bellato def. Luke Fernandez by TKO (strikes), 2:42, Round 1
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