WSOF 16 took place on Saturday at the McClellan Conference Center in Sacramento, California and the main card on NBCSN was headlined by Rousimar Palhares retaining the welterweight title with submission victory against Jon Fitch.
In the co-main event, Lance Palmer became the 3rd WSOF featherweight champion with a submission victory against Rick Glenn.
TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.
- Palhares stopped Fitch at the 1:30 mark of the opening round and this is the 4th fastest stoppage in a WSOF title fight.
- Palhares has won both of his fights in the WSOF by submission and now has the 2nd most submissions in WSOF welterweight division history.
- Fitch is now 2-2 in the WSOF and both defeats have come by submission in the 1st Round.
- Palmer has won back to back fights by submission and is tied with Georgi Karakhanyan for most submissions in WSOF featherweight division history.
- The defeat for Glenn snaps a 13 fight unbeaten streak and 2 of his 3 defeats have come by submission.
- Sheymon Moraes won his WSOF debut by split decision over Gabriel Solorio and 2 of his last 3 wins have come by split decision.
- Josh Berkovic remained undefeated with a decision win over Brenson Hansen and this is his 2nd career win by decision.
- Lewis Gonzalez scored his 2nd win in the WSOF with a split decision win over Justin Buchholz in a welterweight bout.