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Sean Strickland handed Khamzat Chimaev the second loss of his career over five rounds, headlining a night stacked with finishes at the Prudential Center.
If you locked in a Chimaev pick before UFC 328, this one stung. Sean Strickland (31-7) took Khamzat Chimaev (15-1) the full five rounds and walked away with the win in Newark, dealing the middleweight the second defeat of his professional career. Chimaev came in at 15-1; he leaves at 15-1 no longer unbeaten in the way many app predictors were counting on. Strickland’s durability over 25 minutes was the story of the night, and it reshapes the middleweight picture at the very top.
For everyone who filled out a card at the Prudential Center, this was a night where the favorites at the top faltered and the finishers down the card cashed in.
While the headliner went to the scorecards, the grappling did the heavy lifting everywhere else. Yaroslav Amosov needed just 1:13 to submit Joel Álvarez, moving to a remarkable 30-1 and looking every bit the problem he’s always been on the mat. Jim Miller, the veteran at 39-19, reminded everyone why he’s still here, tapping Jared Gordon in the first round at 3:29.
Grant Dawson kept his lightweight momentum going with a third-round submission of Mateusz Rębecki (4:42), and Baisangur Susurkaev stayed perfect at 12-0, finishing Djorden Santos by submission late in the third. Four submissions across the night — if you had “someone taps” on your bingo card, you cleaned up.
Not everything ended early. Roman Kopylov edged Marco Tulio over three rounds, and Pat Sabatini out-worked William Gomis to a decision at featherweight. In the flyweight opener, Jose Ochoa handled Clayton Carpenter across three rounds to move to 9-2. Steady, grinding wins — the kind that quietly wreck a bracket if you leaned on the finish.
The biggest ripple is at middleweight. Strickland beating Chimaev over five rounds is the result that forces a rethink at the top of the division and anywhere Chimaev sat on a pound-for-pound list. Meanwhile, the unbeaten runs of Amosov (30-1) and Susurkaev (12-0) both survived the night intact, and those are names worth tracking going forward.
For the pickers: the lesson from UFC 328 is that the safe favorite at the top isn’t always safe, and the finishers down the card are where the value hid.
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