A 13-fight card at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi was headlined by a featherweight title fight between champion Ilia Topuria and former champ Max Holloway.
Topuria, Khamzat Chimaev and Magomed Ankalaev emerged as big winners from the night, but what's next for each fighter? To make sense of it all, Andreas Hale, Brett Okamoto and Jeff Wagenheim offer their final takeaways on a dramatic night of fights.
Ilia Topuria has made only this one defense of his featherweight championship, but in Saturday's UFC 308 main event, he accomplished a lot.
First, he did something no fighter had ever done. Then he did something this sport could use much more of. By knocking out Max Holloway, Topuria did what the sport's leading purveyor of violence, Justin Gaethje, could not do.