UFC 219: Cyborg Retained Her Title on a Two-Finish Card
UFC 219 results, Cyborg–Holm and Nurmagomedov–Barboza scorecards, plus the card’s 20% finish rate and the result later changed to a no contest.
Cris Cyborg defeated Holly Holm by unanimous decision to retain the UFC women’s featherweight title at UFC 219. The event took place on December 30, 2017, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Khabib Nurmagomedov beat Edson Barboza by unanimous decision in the lightweight co-main event. UFC event listing · UFCStats results
Only two of the card’s 10 bouts ended by knockout or submission, a 20% finish rate. But “decision-heavy” does not mean every fight was close: Nurmagomedov won on scorecards of 30–25, 30–25 and 30–24. There is also an important correction to the original results: Michal Oleksiejczuk’s victory over Khalil Rountree Jr. was later overturned to a no contest.
Full UFC 219 results
The table uses the current UFCStats event record, including the overturned result, rather than treating every fight-night announcement as permanent. Card segments follow the UFC event listing. Time is elapsed time within the listed round.
| Card segment | Bout | Recorded result | Round, time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main card | Cris Cyborg vs. Holly Holm | Cyborg by unanimous decision — women’s featherweight title | 5, 5:00 |
| Main card | Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Edson Barboza | Nurmagomedov by unanimous decision | 3, 5:00 |
| Main card | Dan Hooker vs. Marc Diakiese | Hooker by submission — guillotine choke | 3, 0:42 |
| Main card | Carla Esparza vs. Cynthia Calvillo | Esparza by unanimous decision | 3, 5:00 |
| Main card | Neil Magny vs. Carlos Condit | Magny by unanimous decision | 3, 5:00 |
| Prelims | Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk | No contest — original decision overturned | 3, 5:00 |
| Prelims | Myles Jury vs. Ricky Glenn | Jury by unanimous decision | 3, 5:00 |
| Prelims | Marvin Vettori vs. Omari Akhmedov | Majority draw | 3, 5:00 |
| Prelims | Matheus Nicolau vs. Louis Smolka | Nicolau by unanimous decision | 3, 5:00 |
| Early prelims | Tim Elliott vs. Mark De La Rosa | Elliott by submission — anaconda choke | 2, 1:41 |
Oleksiejczuk originally won a unanimous decision, with all three judges scoring the fight 30–27. Following a positive test for clomiphene, the Nevada State Athletic Commission overturned that victory to a no contest. USADA’s sanction notice confirms the change, and UFCStats retains both the original scores and the corrected outcome. It is not a Rountree victory or a current Oleksiejczuk decision win.
The headline scorecards and statistics
Cyborg vs. Holm: 49–46, 48–47, 48–47
All three judges awarded Cyborg the fight. UFCStats records her landing 118 significant strikes to Holm’s 44, from nearly equal attempt totals: 223 for Cyborg and 227 for Holm. Calculated from those totals, that is approximately 53% accuracy against 19%. Neither fighter recorded a knockdown or a successful takedown. Cyborg–Holm bout statistics
The narrower 48–47 cards and the large aggregate striking gap describe different things: the cards summarize scored rounds, while 118–44 counts significant strikes across the whole fight. The strike total alone cannot reconstruct each judge’s round choices.
Nurmagomedov vs. Barboza: 30–25, 30–25, 30–24
Nurmagomedov’s decision was much wider. His recorded totals included 89–25 in significant strikes, four successful takedowns and 10:31 of control time during a 15-minute bout—about 70% of the available action time. Of his 89 significant strikes, 55 landed on the ground. Nurmagomedov–Barboza bout statistics
This is a useful distinction for finish-rate analysis: a fight can remain unfinished despite a large statistical and scorecard advantage.
How to count UFC 219’s finish rate
For this calculation, a finish means a KO/TKO or submission, and the bout pool is all 10 fights at this one UFC event:
- KO/TKO: 0
- Submission: 2
- Unanimous-decision wins: 6
- Majority draw: 1
- Overturned result/no contest: 1
That produces 2 ÷ 10 = 20%. Excluding the no contest instead gives 2 ÷ 9 = 22.2%; the majority draw remains in the denominator because it was a completed, non-finish bout. These are calculations from the UFCStats event results, not two different accounts of what happened.
Eight bouts physically went the scheduled distance, but only seven now retain a judges’ outcome: six decision victories and the majority draw. With just 10 bouts, one additional finish would move the all-bout rate by 10 percentage points. UFC 219 therefore describes a single card, not a reliable baseline for the promotion or any division. For a broader comparison, use finish rate by weight class and year.