Volkanovski Ruled at Home as UFC 325 Delivered Finishes and Tournament Winners
Alexander Volkanovski retained his featherweight championship against Diego Lopes at UFC 325 in Sydney on February 1, 2026, local time. The Qudos Bank Arena card also featured three main-card stoppages and the completion of three Road to UFC season-four tournament finals.
Volkanovski’s defense led a main card full of consequential results
The champion won unanimously, with scores of 50–45, 49–46 and 49–46. Benoît Saint Denis stopped Dan Hooker at 4:45 of round two, while Mauricio Ruffy finished Rafael Fiziev fifteen seconds earlier in their separate lightweight contest.
Tallison Teixeira outpointed Tai Tuivasa 29–28 across all three judges. Quillan Salkilld submitted Jamie Mullarkey with a first-round face crank at 3:02.
The preliminaries supplied three more finishes
Billy Elekana submitted Junior Tafa by rear-naked choke at 3:18 of round two. Cam Rowston stopped Cody Brundage at 4:08 of the second, and Jonathan Micallef technically submitted Oban Elliott at 3:31 of that round.
Jacob Malkoun defeated Torrez Finney unanimously, while Kaan Ofli edged Yizha by majority decision. Both contests completed their scheduled three rounds.
The tournament finals produced three new UFC roster entrants
Dom Mar Fan defeated Sangwook Kim 30–27 on every card for the lightweight tournament. Keiichiro Nakamura stopped Sebastian Szalay with a late knee at 3:48 of round three to win featherweight.
Lawrence Lui took the bantamweight final by split decision over Sulangrangbo. The planned flyweight final was canceled after Aaron Tau missed weight, leaving three completed tournament championships on the Sydney program.
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