UFC results October 2026: 69% of 65 fights ended inside the distance

The UFC ran five events in October 2026 and 69 percent of the 65 bouts ended before the judges. Thirty-six of them were KO or TKO finishes, and 26 of the finishes came in the first round.

The month ran from UFC 332 in Salt Lake City on 3 October to Moicano vs. Nolan in Las Vegas on 31 October, with stops in Edmonton and Abu Dhabi in between.

UFC results October 2026: how the fights ended

Here is the full split of the 65 bouts: 36 KO or TKO, 9 submissions and 20 decisions. Nothing else, no draws, no no-contests. The finish rate of 69 percent counts every bout that ended by KO, TKO or submission.

Punches did most of the damage. KO and TKO finishes outnumber submissions by four to one, and the 26 first-round finishes mean a large share of the month's work was done before the second round began.

The cards were close in size: UFC 332 and UFC 333 had 14 bouts each, Buckley vs. Malott in Edmonton had 13, and the Allen vs. Duncan and Moicano vs. Nolan shows in Las Vegas had 12 each.

Fastest UFC finishes of the month

Anthony Wint set the pace on the opening card, stopping Lucas Armand with punches after 23 seconds in the heavyweight division at UFC 332. Two weeks later in Edmonton, Cristian Pérez was only four seconds slower, finishing Kyle Nelson in the lightweight division after 27 seconds.

Date	Bout	Winner	Method	Time
3 Oct 2026	Anthony Wint vs Lucas Armand	Anthony Wint	TKO (punches)	0:23
17 Oct 2026	Kyle Nelson vs Cristian Pérez	Cristian Pérez	TKO (punches)	0:27
24 Oct 2026	Aaron Pico vs Losene Keita	Aaron Pico	TKO (punches)	1:14
3 Oct 2026	Damian Pinas vs Andrey Pulyaev	Damian Pinas	TKO (punch)	1:15
17 Oct 2026	Julien Leblanc vs Nick Galanti	Nick Galanti	Submission (neck crank)	1:26

All five ended in round one, across four divisions. Four of them were punches: Aaron Pico won at featherweight and Damian Pinas at middleweight. The exception was Nick Galanti, who needed 1:26 to submit Julien Leblanc with a neck crank in Edmonton.

Title fights in October

Three title fights took place. At UFC 332, Natália Silva beat Wang Cong by unanimous decision over five rounds in the women's flyweight division. At UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi, Alexander Volkanovski stopped Movsar Evloev with punches at 4:54 of round two, and in the same night's bantamweight title fight Petr Yan beat Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision after five rounds.

Two of the three title fights went to the scorecards, and the featherweight bout was the only one that ended early.

Which divisions finished the most fights

Light heavyweight had the highest finish rate: all four of its bouts ended inside the distance. Heavyweight was next at 83 percent, with five finishes in six bouts, followed by lightweight at 78 percent and welterweight at 75 percent. Middleweight was the busiest division with 10 bouts, ahead of lightweight with 9, and both finished at least 70 percent of them.

At the other end, the women's strawweights had three bouts and none ended early, and the women's flyweights finished only two of their five, a rate of 40 percent, which includes the title fight that went the full five rounds.

With 69 percent as the October benchmark, November starts with a number to beat.