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Tyron Woodley didn’t get the victory at UFC on ESPN 9, but he was the highest-paid fighter on the card.

The back-and-forth affair between Billy Quarantillo and Spike Carlyle at UFC on ESPN 9 was a popular choice for “Fight of the Night” for many observers.

Even as Jon Jones is embroiled in a bitter dispute with the UFC and Dana White, he still found time to stop vandalism in his adopted hometown on Sunday night.

Former Bellator lightweight champion Brent Primus submitted ex-Strikeforce king Jake Shields in a featured contest at Submission Underground 14 on Sunday. The event took place at a modified grain silo in Oregon and streamed on UFC Fight Pass.

Over the past few days, the contract negotiations for Jon Jones’ first heavyweight foray devolved into a very public ‘he said-he said’ feud between the 205-pound champion and UFC president Dana White.

Time-honored clichés like hard work and sacrifice propelled Brandon Royval to his Octagon debut. While he was victorious against Tim Elliott in a preliminary flyweight bout at UFC on ESPN 9 on Saturday night, Royval was his own worst critic in the aftermath.

Tyron Woodley vowed that he’d be in a better place against Gilbert Burns than he was when he lost the welterweight championship to Kamaru Usman more than a year ago.

A heavyweight clash pitting Curtis Blaydes against Alexander Volkov is still the scheduled main event for the UFC event on June 20.

At no point was the outcome ever in doubt. Gilbert Burns was just that dominant against Tyron Woodley in the UFC on ESPN 9 main event on Saturday night.

Gilbert Burns earned an extra $50,000 for his five rounds of dominance against Tyron Woodley.