WSOF 19 took place on Saturday night at the Comerica Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona and the main card on NBCSN was headlined by Justin Gaethje retaining the lightweight title with stoppage victory against Luis Palomino.
In the co-main event of the fight card, Teddy Holder advanced to the light heavyweight tournament final as he stopped Thiago Silva in the first round.
TheMMAReport.com has put together post fight statistics from the fight card and are available below.
- Gaethje now has seven wins inside the WSOF cage and he is tied with Marlon Moraes for the most wins in the promotions history.
- The victory over Palomino marks the 6th TKO/KO win for Gaethje in the WSOF and this is the most in WSOF history.
- Gaethje joins Jessica Aguilar as the only champions in WSOF history to make at least two successful title defenses.
- The end of the fight came at the 3:57 mark of the 3rd Round and this is the second latest stoppage in a WSOF title fight.
- The defeat for Palomino snaps a two fight winning streak and he is 6-3 in his last nine fights.
- Holder has now won eight fights in a row and this was his first fight in 534 days.
- All of Holder’s fights have ended in the first round and his average fight time is 1:44.
- Silva entered the fight on a three fight unbeaten streak and this is his first defeat since losing to Alexander Gustafsson in 2012.
- Timur Valiev won his nine straight fight with a TKO win in the first round over Ed West and this is 3rd fastest stoppage in a WSOF bantamweight bout.
- Valiev is now 3-0 in the WSOF and is tied with Moraes for the most TKO/KO wins in WSOF bantamweight competition.
- West has now dropped three in a row and is 1-5 in his last six fights.
- Clifford Starks is 3-0 since his exit from the UFC following a submission victory over Jake Heun.
- The defeat for Heun was his fourth career lost and all of those have come by submission.
- Jimmy Spicuzza scored a decision victory over Benny Madrid and he now has the 2nd most wins in WSOF lightweight division history.