Main Card Results | UFC Baku

The lightweight strikers had everyone on the edge of their seats throughout the first round, where Fiziev chopped away with low kicks and Torres closed out the frame with a stiff jab that landed clean. As the second began, Fiziev wobbled Torres with a spinning wheel kick, putting him on roller skates before swarming to pound out the finish.

Just a brilliant showing from the tenured lightweight talent, who is now 2-0 fighting on home soil and rebounded from his loss earlier this year in spectacular fashion. Fiziev is a perfect example of how results don’t always tell the story of how talented and dangerous a fighter is, and he showed that again to close out the show on Saturday.

Pereira came out sharp, dropping Magomedov with a clean right hand down the pipe as “Bullet” chambered a kick, roughing him up from top position for the majority of the round. But the Brazilian slowed from there, allowing Magomedov to work back into the contest by being the more active of the two, chipping away and scoring while Pereira offered very little in return.

When the scorecards were collected and tallied, it was Magomedov that came out ahead, earning the final two frames from all three officials. The popular striker has now registered consecutive victories and wins in six of his seven UFC appearances, but in such a thriving division, Magomedov is going to need to show more in order to make a real push forward in the rankings.

The two men, who had trained together in the past, stalked each other in the early goings, throwing the occasional strike as they looked to establish their ranges and get their timing down. As Sadykhov came forward, Camilo put a right hand on his temple, instantly sitting him down and forcing him to cover up, with the subsequent follow up blows bringing about the finish.

After a grinding win last time out, this was the kind of explosive effort Camilo needed to start truly building momentum in the talent-rich lightweight division. Just 25 years old, the Xtreme Couture representative is now 11-3 overall with seven wins inside the distance.

The Kazakh contender was better in all facets on Saturday, landing the more telling blows on the feet and controlling the grappling exchanges through all three rounds. While Johnson did well to minimize damage on the ground frequently work back to standing, but Almabayev simply refused to allow him to get any offense of his own going. Late in the third, as they battled on the ground, Almabayev grabbed and extended Johnson’s left leg, forcing “Inner G” to tap to the unconventional and uncommon finisher.

The Russian hopeful was the more active and effective of the two from the outset, throwing and landing the better shots during each of the first two rounds while mixing in timely takedowns and periods of control on the canvas. The pace slowed in the third, but Aliskerov remained in control, dumping Ferreira to the canvas and chipping away from dominant positions through to the final horn.

This was a good win for Aliskerov, who has still only fallen to former champs Robert Whittaker and Khamzat Chimaev in his professional career. But on a night where the first two middleweight bouts ended in dynamic finishes, it’ll be interesting to see how much of a step up he earns with a dominant, but less flashy win here. 

The 35-year-old veteran was on-point from the outset, using his long-range weapons to keep Oleksiejczuk from getting inside before staggering him with a short elbow in close. As the Polish fighter looked to engage, Magomedov dove on a deep guillotine choke, wrapping it up tight and drawing out the tap just before Oleksiejczuk drifted into Dreamland.

This was the best Magomedov has looked in his UFC career and a dynamic return to the win column for the Russian-born, German-based fighter. On a night where the middleweight division is front and center, this was a statement effort that should carry him forward in the ultra-competitive weight class.