UFC 298 Results and Highlights
The results and analysis from UFC 298, which took place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, are now available. The event featured a major featherweight title fight and a key middleweight co-main event.
- In the main event, Ilia Topuria knocked out Alexander Volkanovski with a right hand at 3:32 of the second round to become the new, undefeated UFC featherweight champion. This victory ended Volkanovski's reign which began in December 2019. - The co-main event saw former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker earn a unanimous decision victory over Paulo Costa, with judges' scores of 29-28, 29-28, and 30-27. Whittaker survived a scare at the end of the first round when he was wobbled by a spinning heel kick from Costa. - Bantamweight contender Merab Dvalishvili extended his winning streak to ten with a unanimous decision win over former two-division champion Henry Cejudo. The victory positions Dvalishvili as a likely top contender for the next bantamweight title shot. - The event's $50,000 "Fight of the Night" bonus was awarded to the women's strawweight bout between Amanda Lemos and Mackenzie Dern, which Lemos won by unanimous decision. - "Performance of the Night" bonuses of $50,000 were awarded to new champion Ilia Topuria, Anthony Hernandez, and Zhang Mingyang. Hernandez won via a second-round rear-naked choke, and Zhang secured a first-round knockout. - In another main card bout, welterweight Ian Machado Garry secured a split decision victory over Geoff Neal.
