Silva Wins Flyweight Title; UFC 332 Sets KO Record — SkimNews
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- Natalia Silva won the vacant women's flyweight title by unanimous decision over Wang Cong, tying Valentina Shevchenko's division record of nine consecutive UFC wins while extending her unbeaten streak to 14 fights overall.
- Payton Talbott called out Sean O'Malley after a first-round TKO of former two-time flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo, his second consecutive finish of a former champion after retiring Henry Cejudo one fight earlier.
- UFC 332 broke company records with 11 total knockouts and 9 first-round knockouts (the modern mark since 2000), falling one shy of the all-time finishes record.
- Roberto Soldic debuted at welterweight with a three-round beating of Khaos Williams, leveraging his 2018 TKO win over Dricus du Plessis and stints in KSW and ONE Championship to position himself as a future title threat at 170 pounds.
- Johnny Walker knocked out 10-1 Mick Parkin in just over three minutes via a knee from the Thai clinch in his heavyweight debut, after admitting he had been passing out during training while trying to cut to 205 pounds.
- Ateba Gautier, the previously unbeaten 24-year-old middleweight knockout machine, suffered his first UFC loss via first-round KO to Roman Kopylov.
Why it matters: Talbott's back-to-back finishes of two former champions at age 28—and his public callout of O'Malley—make him the most credible next bantamweight title challenger overnight, while Walker's heavyweight reinvention after a 1-3 stretch at light heavyweight adds a high-variance finisher to a division full of plodding giants. The record KO count underscores UFC's deepening prospect pipeline beyond its established champions.
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