UFC 323 live results: Two title fights from Las Vegas
The final UFC pay-per-view of 2025, and perhaps the final one in company history as a historic new media rights deal begins next year, sees a stacked card at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for UFC 323.
The main event is a battle for the UFC Bantamweight Championship as current champion Merab Dvalishvili defends against former champion Petr Yan. Dvalishvili is making his fourth title defense of 2025, while Yan has won three straight fights. This is a rematch of a non-title bout that took place in March 2023, which was won by Dvalishvili.
The co-main event sees a second title fight as UFC Flyweight Champion Alexandre Pantoja defends against Joshua Van. Pantoja is making his fifth title defense in the midst of an eight-fight win streak, while the surging Van has won five straight and is coming off a win over Brandon Royval in one of the best fights of the year.
The rest of the main card sees a flyweight bout between former champion Brandon Moreno and Tatsuro Taira; a bantamweight bout that sees former two-division champion Henry Cejudo, in his retirement bout, taking on Payton Talbott; and another former champion in Jan Blachowicz squaring off against Bogdan Guskov in light heavyweight action.
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> Featherweights*- Muhammad Naimov (13-3, 5-1 UFC) vs. Mairon Santos (16-1, 3-0 UFC)
*Santos missed weight by 1.5 pounds
They trade leg kicks as Santos lands a hard one. Santos rocks Naimov with a right hand as Naimov landed a leg kick. Naimov lands a body kick. Santos with a front kick to the body. Santos lands a high body kick. Time out is called as there was a clash of heads. Action resumes and they clinch against the fence. Naimov lands a knee as Santos lands a hammerfist to the thigh and is slapping the back of Naimov. Santos lands a knee and they separate. Naimov with a wheel kick that Santos blocks. Santos with a body kick. 10-9 Santos.
Santos lands a hard calf kick. They clinch and Santos gets the body lock and has the back as they go to the fence. Santos is slapping the back of Naimov as Naimov is just holding onto Santos. Santos lands another hard calf kick. Santos lands a leg kick. Naimov isn’t landing with much offense. They clinch and Santos lands a knee. Santos lands another knee and a left hand on the break. Naimov shoots for a takedown but Santos defends and lands a knee. They separate. 10-9 Santos, 20-18 Santos.
Santos lands a leg kick and then drops Naimov with a massive right hand and some follow-up shots from the top end it. What a finish from Santos!
Fight Result- Mairon Santos def. Muhammad Naimov by TKO (punches) at :21 of Round 3
> Middleweights- Mansur Abdul-Malik (8-0-1, 2-0-1 UFC) vs. Antonio Trocoli (12-5 1 NC, 0-2 UFC)
They trade punches and Trocoli lands a leg kick. Abdul-Malik gets a takedown. Abdul-Malik gets to his feet and then jumps into the mount. Trocoli tries to roll out and Abdul-Malik grabs the neck and has a standing guillotine choke locked in as they got to their feet and Trocoli quickly taps!
Fight Result- Mansur Abdul-Malik def. Antonio Trocoli by submission (standing guillotine choke) at 1:09 of Round 1
> Light Heavyweights- Iwo Baraniewski (6-0, 0-0 UFC) vs. Ibo Aslan (14-3, 2-2 UFC)
> Lightweights- Edson Barboza (24-13, 18-13 UFC) vs. Jalin Turner (14-9, 7-6 UFC)
> Middleweights*- #14 Marvin Vettori (19-8-1, 9-7-1 UFC) vs. Brunno Ferreira (14-2, 5-2 UFC)
*Ferreira missed weight by three pounds
> Lightweights- Nazim Sadykhov (11-1-1, 4-0-1 UFC) vs. Fares Ziam (17-4, 7-2 UFC)
> Women’s Flyweights- #5 Maycee Barber (14-2, 9-2 UFC) vs. #9 Karine Silva (19-5, 5-1 UFC)
> Lightweights- Terrance McKinney (17-7, 7-4 UFC) vs. Chris Duncan (14-2, 5-1 UFC)
> Lightweights- #13 Grant Dawson (23-2-1, 11-1-1 UFC) vs. Manuel Torres (16-3, 4-1 UFC)
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> Light Heavyweights- #5 Jan Blachowicz (29-11-1, 12-8-1 UFC) vs. #11 Bogdan Guskov (18-3, 4-1 UFC)
> Bantamweights- #10 Henry Cejudo (16-5, 10-5 UFC) vs. Payton Talbott (10-1, 4-1 UFC)
> Flyweights- #2 Brandon Moreno (23-8-2, 11-5-2 UFC) vs. #5 Tatsuro Taira (17-1, 7-1 UFC)
> UFC Flyweight Championship- C Alexandre Pantoja (30-5, 14-3 UFC) vs. #1 Joshua Van (15-2, 8-1 UFC)
> UFC Bantamweight Championship- C Merab Dvalishvili (21-4, 14-2 UFC) vs. #3 Petr Yan (19-5, 11-4 UFC)
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