WSOF 22 took place on Saturday night in Las Vegas and the main card on NBCSN was headlined by Rousimar Palhares retaining the WSOF welterweight title with a submission victory over Jake Shields.
The co-main event was also a title fight as Marlon Moraes retained the WSOF bantamweight title with a submission victory over Sheymon Moraes in the third round.
TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.
- Palhares is now tied with Steve Carl for the most submissions in WSOF history.
- This is the 3rd victory in WSOF for Palhares and he is tied for 2nd most in WSOF welterweight division history.
- This is the first time that Shields has been submitted in a MMA fight.
- Marlon Moraes joins Jessica Aguilar, Justin Gaethje, and Palhares as the only champions in WSOF history to make two successful title defenses.
- Moraes has the most wins in WSOF history (8).
- Clifford Starks scored a decision win over Mike Kyle and he has won four in a row since exiting the UFC in 2013.
- Abubakar Nurmagomedov won his WSOF debut with a decision over Jorge Moreno and this marks the first time he has gone the distance in his career.
- Islam Mamedov is now 2-0 following his 1st Round TKO win over Jimmy Spizuzza and both of his WSOF wins have come in the final 20 seconds of the opening round.
- Jake Heun submitted Davin Clark in the featured prelim bout and he is now tied for most wins in WSOF light heavyweight division history.