Islam Makhachev retained his welterweight title and set the UFC record for the longest win streak in promotion history at 17, beating top-ranked Ian Machado Garry by unanimous decision at UFC 330 in Philadelphia. Elsewhere on the card, Mackenzie Dern retained the women's strawweight title over Gillian Robertson, and heavy favorite Mansur Abdul-Malik was submitted in one of two major upsets on the main card.
The main event: Makhachev breaks the record
Judges scored it 49-46, 49-46 and 48-47 for Makhachev over Machado Garry, a wide margin against a fighter who came in unbeaten in his last two and ranked number one at welterweight. Garry, a rangy Irish striker, was built to make Makhachev's takedowns expensive, and for stretches he did — but a five-round fight gave Makhachev enough looks to find his openings.
The turning point came in round two. Makhachev hurt Garry badly with a head kick as Garry exited a clinch exchange, a moment that swung the fight's momentum decisively. Garry rallied in round three, landing body and calf kicks to win the round on all three cards, but Makhachev answered in round five by taking his back and working for a rear-naked choke, a chokehold applied from behind that closed the show on the scorecards even without a tap.
The win pushes Makhachev's win streak to 17 fights without a loss, the longest active or all-time streak in UFC history. He has now beaten a lightweight and a welterweight champion back to back, and there is no obvious challenger left at 170 pounds who hasn't already lost to him.
The co-main: Dern survives an early scare, then cruises
Mackenzie Dern nearly finished the fight in the first round, locking in a choke that had Gillian Robertson in real danger before Robertson survived to the bell. That was the closest either woman came to ending it early, and it set the tone: Robertson, a Canadian veteran and the UFC's all-time leader in women's submission wins, never found a comparable opening again.
Dern, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion before she ever competed in MMA, controlled both the striking and the grappling exchanges over the following four rounds. Robertson is ranked fifth in the strawweight division and had earned this title shot on a five-fight win streak, but the judges saw it clearly for Dern, 49-46, 49-46, 48-47 — her first successful defense of the belt she won in October 2025.
The upsets: Stoltzfus, then Turner and Ribovics finish fast
The middleweight bout between Mansur Abdul-Malik and Dustin Stoltzfus was supposed to be a step-back fight for a hot prospect. Abdul-Malik came in a massive betting favorite, all nine of his career wins finishes. Instead, Stoltzfus survived a competitive first round, hurt Abdul-Malik with right hands against the cage in round two, dragged the fight to the floor, and forced a tap with a rear-naked choke at 4:25. It's Abdul-Malik's second straight loss and snaps Stoltzfus's own two-fight skid in dramatic fashion.
Jalin Turner needed just 39 seconds to blow out Kaue Fernandes. Fernandes tried a spinning back fist; Turner countered with a punch and a follow-up uppercut that put him down, then finished with follow-up strikes before the referee stepped in. It's the fastest knockout of Turner's UFC career.
Esteban Ribovics closed the main card by finishing 40-year-old former title challenger Edson Barboza with punches at 1:32 of round two, after badly hurting him in combinations to end round one. Barboza announced his retirement after the fight, closing out a UFC run that included fights against Khabib Nurmagomedov, Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje.
Prelims: two big underdogs cash in
| Fight | Winner | Method | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wells vs. Orolbai | Jeremiah Wells | Submission (guillotine choke) | 3, 1:24 |
| Njokuani vs. Alvarez | Chidi Njokuani | Decision (unanimous) | 3 |
| Magny vs. Brahimaj | Neil Magny | KO/TKO (punches) | 2, 3:20 |
| Johnson vs. McConico | Donte Johnson | KO/TKO (punches) | 1, 1:38 |
| Luque vs. Gore | Tresean Gore | Decision (unanimous) | 3 |
| Johnson vs. Henrique | Charles Johnson | Submission (Scottish Twister) | 3, 1:36 |
| Tobias vs. Fernando | Lucas Fernando | KO/TKO (knee to the body) | 3, 1:10 |
The prelims produced the two biggest underdog wins of the night. Jeremiah Wells, a 39-year-old fighting in his Philadelphia hometown, was a massive live underdog against Myktybek Orolbai, who came in on a four-fight streak built on relentless wrestling. Orolbai took the first round with a takedown and top control, but Wells hurt him with a punch, and the ensuing scramble saw Orolbai wrestle himself directly into a guillotine choke that put him to sleep.
Chidi Njokuani sprung the other significant upset, out-working -270 favorite Joel Alvarez across three rounds for a clean unanimous decision — arguably the best win of Njokuani's UFC career and a snapped two-fight losing skid. Elsewhere, Charles Johnson finished short-notice debutant Eduardo Henrique with just the second Scottish Twister in UFC history, an inverted leg-and-neck submission that is rarely seen even at the sport's highest level.
What it means
Makhachev's record-setting streak leaves him with no obvious next challenge at welterweight and a real case as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of his era. Dern's first defense quiets any question about whether her jiu-jitsu pedigree would translate against a live grappling threat — it did, decisively.
The upsets reshuffle more than one division's plans. Stoltzfus's submission win over a fighter many expected to be a middleweight star sends Abdul-Malik back to the drawing board, while Turner and Ribovics both re-enter the lightweight conversation with statement finishes. Wells and Njokuani, meanwhile, turned in two of the best moments of their careers on the same night, in front of the same Philadelphia crowd.
Full stats, records and the pre-fight breakdowns for every matchup on the card are on the UFC 330 event page.