UFC opened its August schedule in historic fashion on Saturday. UFC on ESPN 40 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas featured a finish in all 10 fights.
The main event needed the additional rounds, however, because Jamahal Hill (11-1 MMA, 5-1 UFC) battled with Thiago Santos (22-11 MMA, 14-10 UFC) in the fourth frame before securing a TKO stoppage that continued to his rise in the light heavyweight division.
For more on the numbers behind the record-setting event, check below for MMA Junkie’s post-event facts from UFC on ESPN 40.
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UFC on ESPN 40 was the second modern-era event in company history to feature all finishes. UFC Fight Night 54 in 2014, which featured 11 bouts, was the other.
The UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance payout for the event totaled $140,000.
Debuting fighters went 2-2 at the event.
Hill, Santos, Geoff Neal, Mohammed Usman and Bryan Battle earned $50,000 UFC on ESPN 40 fight-night bonuses.
The UFC sold VIP tickets to fans for UFC on ESPN 40, but the promotion did not make public the total number of tickets sold or the gate.
Betting favorites went 7-3 on the card.
Betting favorites improved to 17-10 in UFC headliners this year.
Total fight time for the 10-bout card was 1:10:04.
Jamahal Hill def. Thiago Santos
Hill has earned all of his career stoppage victories by knockout.
Hill’s four knockout victories since 2020 in UFC light heavyweight competition are most in the division.
Santos fell to 3-4 in UFC main events.
Santos fell to 4-5 since he moved up to the light heavyweight division in September 2018.
Santos has suffered six of his 10 UFC losses by stoppage.
Geoff Neal def. Vicente Luque
Neal (15-4 MMA, 7-2 UFC) has earned 11 of his 14 career victories by stoppage.
Neal has earned five of his seven UFC victories by stoppage.
Vicente Luque (21-9-1 MMA, 14-5 UFC) suffered the first knockout loss of his career.
Mohammed Usman def. Zac Pauga
Usman (8-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has earned six of his eight career victories by stoppage.
Zac Pauga (5-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) had his five-fight winning streak snapped for the first defeat of his career.
Juliana Miller def. Brogan Walker
Juliana Miller (3-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has earned all three of her career victories by stoppage.
Miller earned the first knockout victory of her career.
Brogan Walker (7-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) suffered the first stoppage loss of her career with a TKO defeat.
Serghei Spivac def. Augusto Sakai
Serghei Spivac (15-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) has earned 13 of his 15 career victories by stoppage.
Augusto Sakai’s (15-5-1 MMA, 4-4 UFC) four-fight losing skid is the longest of his career. He hasn’t earned a victory since May 2020.
Sakai has suffered all four of his career stoppage losses by knockout.
Terrance McKinney def. Erick Gonzalez
Terrance McKinney (13-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) has earned all 13 of his career victories by stoppage.
McKinney has earned all three- of his UFC victories by first-round stoppage.
Erick Gonzalez (14-7 MMA, 0-2 UFC) has suffered both of his UFC losses by stoppage.
Gonzalez has suffered three of his four career stoppage losses by submission.
Michal Oleksiejczuk def. Sam Alvey
Michal Oleksiejczuk (17-5 MMA, 5-3 UFC) improved to 1-0 since he dropped to the UFC middleweight division in August 2022.
Oleksiejczuk has earned 13 of his 17 career victories by stoppage. He’s finished nine of those wins in Round 1.
Sam Alvey’s (33-18-1 MMA, 10-13-1 UFC) nine-fight winless skid is the longest in UFC history. He hasn’t earned a victory since June 2018.
Bryan Battle def. Takashi Sato
Battle (8-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) was successful in his UFC welterweight debut.
Battle has earned six of his eight career victories by stoppage.
Takashi Sato’s (16-6 MMA, 2-3 UFC) three-fight losing skid is the longest of his career. He hasn’t earned a victory since June 2020.
Sato has suffered four of his five career losses by stoppage.
Sato suffered his first knockout loss since Aug. 9, 2015 – a span of 2,554 days and 13 fights.
Cory McKenna def. Miranda Granger
Cory McKenna (7-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) earned the eighth Von Flue choke submission in UFC history.
McKenna became the first female in UFC history to earn a submission victory by Von Flue choke.
Miranda Granger (7-3 MMA, 1-3 UFC) has suffered three consecutive losses after starting her career 7-0.
Granger has suffered both of her career stoppage losses by submission.
Mayra Bueno Silva def. Stephanie Egger
Mayra Bueno Silva (9-2-1 MMA, 4-2-1 UFC) has earned seven of her nine career victories by stoppage. That includes three of her four UFC wins.
Silva’s victory at the 1:17 mark of Round 1 marked the fourth-fastest submission in UFC women’s bantamweight history.
Stephanie Egger (7-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) suffered the first stoppage loss of her career with a submission defeat.
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC on ESPN 40.
UFC research analyst and live statistics producer Michael Carroll contributed to this story. Follow him on Twitter @MJCflipdascript.
