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Every fight on the South Lawn ended by knockout, and the main event delivered the night's biggest upset — here is who came through and who fell.
UFC Freedom 250, staged on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, closed with the result almost nobody in the app had penciled in. Justin Gaethje (28-5) stopped Ilia Topuria (17-1) by KO/TKO in the fourth round, the finish landing at the 5:00 mark. Topuria arrived carrying a single blemish on his record and left with a second, and the manner of it — a knockout in the championship rounds — reframes the top of the picture. If you picked Topuria to walk through this card, this is the night that got you.
Gaethje’s win headlined a card that was violent from the first bout to the last. Read that literally: every single fight on this card ended by KO/TKO. Seven fights, seven knockouts.
The second-biggest result of the evening: Ciryl Gane (14-2) knocked out Alex Pereira (13-4) in the second round, and he did it fast — the stoppage came at just 1:27. It was the quickest finish of the main-card fights and a statement heavyweight result. Pereira, at 13-4, absorbed the loss in a spot where plenty of predictors leaned his way.
Going down the card, the finishes kept coming:
Two results stand out for anyone who logged a prediction. Gaethje over Topuria is the headline shock — a champion-level name falling by knockout late in the fight. And Gane over Pereira, given how quickly it ended, was a swing result at heavyweight that reshuffles the division’s top names in a single round-two sequence.
Ruffy’s first-round finish of Chandler belongs in the same conversation. Chandler is a 23-11 veteran with a long tail of high-profile nights, and Ruffy took him out early. On a card where the favorites were supposed to hold serve, the underdogs did real damage.
The lightweight and featherweight picture bends around Gaethje’s win over Topuria — a name that entered at 17-1 does not lose by fourth-round knockout without moving the room. At heavyweight, Gane’s 1:27 finish of Pereira puts him back in the frame at the top. And the unbeaten runs stayed unbeaten: Hokit is now 10-0 after going through a 29-fight-losing-tally veteran in Lewis, and Bo Nickal (9-1) got his hand raised again.
The throughline of Freedom 250 is simple — nobody heard the scorecards. Seven fights, seven knockouts, on the South Lawn.
If this card scrambled your bracket, the next one is a fresh slate. Lock in your picks for the upcoming card in the app before the walkouts start — the knockouts on this White House night proved that the safe pick and the right pick are not always the same thing.