UFC Vegas 120 was not a good card on paper, but in practice, we got treated to a decent card with quite a few finishes. That’s how these shows tend to go, though. You book a bunch of lower tier fighters and older guys/gals and you end up with some highlight reel moments. It’s not that we don’t appreciate them for what they are, it’s that we’re supposed to get higher quality matchups then the ones we normally get, being that this IS the UFC.

The undercard finishes began with Julianna Miller submitting Ravena Oliveira via rear naked choke in the second round. Miles Johns would score a nice first round TKO of Gianni Vazquez to keep the ball rolling. Jose Montanha choked out Louie Sutherland, also in the first round. Diyar Nurgozhay got the buzzer-beater TKO of Bruno Lopes in the first round to close out the finishes for the prelims.

Ty Miller and Billy Ray Goff had a spirited fight but Miller would take the win via TKO in the third round. Yadier Del Valle needed just 15 seconds to send Darren Elkins off to retirement. Thank you for all the damage done and taken, Mr. Elkins. Quillan Salkilld defeated Mateusz Gamrot bvia rear naked choke in the first round, securing his place as the next big thing and closing out the main card with a bang. Now that we’ve reviewed the highlights, let’s check out the results and bonuses while we’re here.

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UFC Vegas 120 Results

* 155 lbs.: Quillan Salkilld def. Mateusz Gamrot by submission (rear naked choke), round 1 (4:25)

* 155 lbs.: Diego Ferreira def. Billy Quarantillo by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

* 145 lbs.: Yadier Del Valle def. Darren Elkins by TKO (punches), round 1 (0:35)

* 115 lbs.: Alexia Thainara def. Amanda Lemos by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)

* 170 lbs.: Ty Miller def. Billy Ray Goff by TKO (punches), round 3 (0:15)

* 265 lbs.: Steven Asplund def. Guilherme Pat by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

* 205 lbs.: Diyar Nurgozhay def. Bruno Lopes by TKO (punches), round 1 (4:59)

* 265 lbs.: Jose Montanha def. Louie Sutherland by submission (rear naked choke), round 1 (1:50)

* 155 lbs: Manoel Sousa def. Richie Miranda by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

* 135 lbs.: Miles Johns def. Gianni Vazquez by TKO (punches), round 1 (3:09)

* 125 lbs.: Juliana Miller def. Ravena Oliveira by submission (rear naked choke), round 2 (4:38)

* 115 lbs.: Carol Foro def. GiGi Canuto by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

UFC Vegas 120 Bonuses

* $100K each FOTN: Billy Quarantillo vs. Diego Ferreira

* $100K each POTN: Quillan Salkilld, Ty Miller

* $25K each to the other fighters that got a finish: Miles Johns, Juliana Miller, José Montanha, Diyar Nurgozhay, Yadier del Valle

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UFC 328 was a genuinely good card on paper and it delivered plenty of action in practice too. Baisangur Susurkaev defeated Djorden Santos via rear naked choke to kick off our finishes, but he had a lot of folks worried up to that point. Jim Miller proved once again that he feasts off any mistake, instantly capitalizing and making Jared Gordon tap out to a guillotine. It really is Miller Time tonight. Grant Dawson would keep the submissions rolling with a nice rear naked choke of Mateusz Rebecki.

Yaroslav Amosov continued to impress with his own submission, an anaconda choke of Joel Alvarez. I look forward to his next fight because it’s always nice to see an outsider come in and wreck shop. Ateba Gautier’s sweet KO of Ozzy Diaz rounded out the prelims, and is no doubt giving the brass another great finish to consider for one of the big bonuses.

King Green kicked off the main card with a submission win over Jeremy Stephens. Yep, you read that right, King Green scored a rear naked choke at 4:20 of the first round. The jokes write themselves here. Joshua Van defended his belt in one of the best fights of the year, an action-packed firecracker. The end would come in the fifth round, a TKO that finally put Tatsuro Taira down for the night, even though he clearly wasn’t ready for the fight to be called. Absolute barn-burner.

In the main event, Chimaev would come out strong in the first round, absolutely smothering Strickland for the entire round. But, as history has shown us, Khamzat has the gas tank of a fruit fly and blew his wad in the first, and Sean would handily take the second round. It would take the rest of the fight for him to regain some semblance of his cardio, but never enough to have a truly dominant round, and not enough to get Strickland back down for any significant amount of time. It ended up costing him the win, as the two “standing and banging”—she said using her heaviest quote fingers—was what we got for the last three rounds, and the split decision favored Sean. Now that we’ve reviewed the highlights, let’s check out the results and bonuses while we’re here.

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UFC 328 Results

* 185 lbs.: Sean Strickland def. Khamzat Chimaev by split decision (47-48, 48-47, 48-47)

* 125 lbs.: Joshua Van def. Tatsuro Taira by TKO (punches), round 5 (1:32)

* 265 lbs.: Alexander Volkov def. Waldo Cortes-Acosta by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)

* 170 lbs.: Sean Brady def. Joaquin Buckley by unanimous decision (30-25, 30-25, 30-26)

* 155 lbs.: King Green def. Jeremy Stephens by submission (rear naked choke), round 1 (4:20)

* 185 lbs.: Ateba Gautier def. Ozzy Diaz by KO (punches), round 2 (1:10)

* 170 lbs.: Yaroslav Amasov def. Joel Alvarez by submission (anaconda), round 2 (1:13)

* 155 lbs.: Grant Dawson def. Mateusz Rebecki by submission (rear naked choke), round 3 (4:42)

* 155 lbs.: Jim Miller def. Jared Gordon by submission (guillotine), round 1 (3:29)

* 185 lbs.: Roman Kopylov def. Marco Tulio by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

* 145 lbs.: Pat Sabatini def. William Gomis by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

* 185 lbs.: Baisangur Susurkaev def. Djorden Santos by technical submission (rear naked choke), round 3 (4:12)

* 125 lbs.: Jose Ochoa def. Clayton Carpenter by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

UFC 328 Bonuses

* $100K each FOTN: Joshua Van vs. Tatsuro Taira

* $100K each POTN: Jim Miller, Yaroslav Amosov

* $25K each to the other fighters that got a finish: King Green, Ateba Gautier, Grant Dawson, Baisangur Susurkaev

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