The UFC’s return to Macau after greater than a decade unfolded Saturday at Galaxy Enviornment with UFC Combat Night time 248, which proved to be one of the violent playing cards of the 12 months.

Though there was no end in the primary occasion, former bantamweight champion Petr Yan (18-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) supplied a reminder of his expertise in when he delivered a superb efficiency in opposition to Deiveson Figueiredo (24-4-1 MMA, 13-4-1 UFC) en path to a unanimous resolution.

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Petr Yan def. Deiveson Figueiredo

Petr Yan

Yan earned consecutive victories for the primary time since 2020.

Figueiredo fell to 3-1 since he moved as much as the UFC bantamweight division in December 2023.

Figueiredo has suffered two of his 4 profession losses by resolution.

Yan Xiaonan def. Tabatha Ricci

Yan Xiaonan (16-4 MMA, 9-3 UFC) improved to 13-3 (with one no contest) since getting back from a virtually five-year layoff in July 2015.

Xiaonan has earned eight of her 9 UFC victories by resolution.

Tabatha Ricci (11-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) has suffered two of her three profession losses by resolution.

Muslim Salikhov def. Music Kenan

Salikhov (21-5 MMA, 8-4 UFC) grew to become the primary in UFC historical past to earn a number of knockouts stemming from a spinning wheel kick. There’s been 15 total finishes within the firm with the approach.

Music Kenan (17-8 MMA, 6-5 UFC) has suffered all 4 of his profession stoppage losses by knockout.

Gabriella Fernandes def. Wang Cong

Fernandes (10-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC), who was a +750 betting underdog, earned the fourth-biggest upset in UFC historical past.

Fernandes stopped her opponent regardless of a -28 important strike differential, the second-largest disparity in UFC ladies’s flyweight historical past.

Wang Cong (6-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) had her six-fight profitable streak snapped for the primary defeat of her profession.

Carlos Ulberg def. Volkan Oezdemir

Carlos Ulberg’s (10-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) seven-fight UFC profitable streak at mild heavyweight is the longest lively streak within the division.

Volkan Oezdemir (20-8 MMA, 8-7 UFC) fell to 5-7 in his previous 12 fights courting again to January 2018.

Zhang Mingyang def. Ozzy Diaz

Mingyang (18-6 MMA, 2-0 UFC) has earned all 18 of his profession victories by stoppage. He’s completed all of these wins in Spherical 1.

Mingyang earned the primary knockout stemming from an elbow strike at distance in UFC mild heavyweight historical past. It was the tenth end of its sort in UFC historical past.

Ozzy Diaz (9-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) has suffered all three of his profession losses by knockout.

Carlos Hernandez def. Nyamjargal Tumendemberel

Carlos Hernandez

Carlos Hernandez (10-4 MMA, 3-3 UFC) has earned all three of his UFC victories by resolution.

Nyamjargal Tumendemberel (8-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had his eight-fight profitable streak snapped for the primary defeat of his profession.

Lone’er Kavanagh def. Jose Ochoa

Jose Ochoa (7-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had his eight-fight unbeaten streak snapped for the primary defeat of his profession.

Xiao Lengthy def. Quang Le

Quang Le (8-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) suffered consecutive losses after beginning his profession 8-0.

Le suffered the primary stoppage lack of his profession with a knockout defeat.

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UFC analysis analyst and reside statistics producer Michael Carroll contributed to this story. Comply with him on X @MJCflipdascript.