UFC 327 Results: Full Breakdown of Every Fight
UFC 327 landed at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, and handed out one of the stranger title-fight finishes in recent memory. By the time the last scorecard was read, the card had produced a new champion, two decisions that split judges clean in half, a majority draw, and a surprising amount of disagreement in later reporting about what actually happened in the fight everyone showed up to watch. The headline result was clean enough on its own; the details surrounding it took longer to settle than the fight itself did.
Carlos Ulberg knocked out Jiří Procházka in the first round, finishing him with punches at 3:45 to take the vacant light heavyweight title. ESPN’s fight center logged it as a clean KO/TKO by punch at that same time stamp, which matters, because other recaps drifted into disagreement almost right away. The same confusion shows up wherever odds get argued over, from esports betting predictions forums to live UFC scorecards, since the number on the board rarely survives contact with the actual event. One Yahoo listing, updated weeks later, pinned the finish to round two instead of round one. That version contradicts ESPN and the contemporaneous Fighters Only breakdown, so it reads like the error it almost certainly is, though it shows how easily a single detail can drift once an outlet revisits its own copy after the fact.
Procházka offered his own account afterward, and it complicates the highlight-reel version. “It’s true, I felt like mercy, you know, in that fight. I felt so sorry for him. This is one of the biggest lessons in my life. I still can’t understand, that fight was won. I had it,” he said, according to Yahoo Sports’ live coverage. ESPN’s own reporting backs part of that framing: Procházka was reportedly piecing up a hobbled Ulberg early, before a single left hook flipped the whole fight in an instant. Call it an improbable recovery or call it a missed finish; both readings survive the tape, and neither fighter’s account fully settles which one is closer to what actually happened inside the cage.
Paulo Costa needed far less time to make his own statement on the same card. He stopped Azamat Murzakanov with a head kick in the third round, the finish landing at 1:23 for a clean TKO, with no debate attached to this one across any of the outlets that covered it.
The decisions on the main card were messier than the finishes. Josh Hokit beat Curtis Blaydes by unanimous decision, with all three judges turning in identical 29-28 cards. Dominick Reyes got past Johnny Walker by split decision, 29-28, 28-29, 29-28, a fight neither man controlled enough of to settle outright, and the split cards reflected how close it read live, with neither man landing enough clean, visible offense to pull all three judges onto one side.
Finishes on the Main Card
Cub Swanson stopped Nate Landwehr with punches in the first round, the fight waved off at 4:06. Mateusz Gamrot caught Esteban Ribovics in an arm-triangle choke in round two, tapping him at 4:19. Tatiana Suarez finished Loopy Godínez with a rear-naked choke, also in the second round, at 2:29. Those three results gave the card its cleanest outcomes of the night, with no asterisks and no conflicting listings to untangle afterward, since every outlet that covered them landed on the same times and methods.
Decisions, a Draw, and the Undercard
Aaron Pico handled Patricio Freire across three rounds, sweeping all three cards 30-27. Kevin Holland did the same to Randy Brown, also 30-27 across the board. MarQuel Mederos and Chris Padilla fought to a majority draw, with one judge seeing it 29-27 for Mederos and the other two calling it dead even at 28-28, a split that left the result unsatisfying for anyone watching ringside and underscored how differently three judges can score the same few minutes of action.
Vicente Luque finished Kelvin Gastelum with a D’Arce choke in the first round at 4:08, though a couple of secondary recaps labeled the submission an anaconda choke instead. The Fighters Only results sheet, which carried the most complete version of the card, calls it a D’Arce, and that’s the naming this breakdown follows. Charles Radtke closed the night with a lopsided unanimous decision over Francisco Prado, 30-26 across all three cards, a finish about as uncontroversial as anything else logged in the night’s MMA results.
UFC 327 will likely get remembered for the one punch that undid Procházka’s night, but the record around it tells a stranger story: a title fight with two separate round counts attached to it depending on which outlet you trust, a draw that read three different ways depending on the judge, and a submission two publications couldn’t agree how to name. The knockout itself was never in doubt, but the paperwork surrounding it took longer than the fight did to sort out.
