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Sport · Sunday, October 25, 2026

Volkanovski and Yan keep their titles at UFC 333

The File desk · Oct. 25, 2026, 6:41 a.m. ET

Confirmed2 primary sources

Status

Confirmed from UFC's results article and event page for UFC 333 on Oct. 24, 2026, at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. No betting line is included.
  • Confirmed
    Alexander Volkanovski kept the featherweight title, stopping Movsar Evloev at 4:54 of round 2.
  • Confirmed
    Petr Yan kept the bantamweight title, beating Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision, 48-47 on all three cards.
Alexander Volkanovski kept the featherweight title on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, stopping Movsar Evloev at 4:54 of the second round. Petr Yan kept the bantamweight title the same night, beating Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision after five rounds.1
UFC's results article says Volkanovski handed Evloev, who had been undefeated, a first loss. The same article says the win moved Volkanovski ahead of Jose Aldo for the most title-fight wins in featherweight history. That comparison is UFC's. The judges scored Yan's fight 48-47, 48-47, 48-47. UFC labeled the Yan bout Fight of the Night and labeled Volkanovski's bout and Lone'er Kavanagh's bout Performance of the Night. The event page does not print a bonus amount, and this story does not add one.1
On the rest of the main card, Lone'er Kavanagh stopped Ramazan Temirov at 4:28 of round 1. Alexander Volkov beat Rizvan Kuniev by unanimous decision. Aaron Pico stopped Losene Keita at 1:14 of round 1. The prelim winners and the one split decision are in the notes. The card was at Etihad Arena. UFC says the U.S. broadcast was on Paramount+.2
Why it matters (Estimate). Two champions who were supposed to be in hard fights left Abu Dhabi still champions. Volkanovski's stoppage ended an undefeated run by the challenger. Yan's decision was a 25-minute fight the judges all scored the same way, one round apart. The rest of the card is a list of finishes and decisions. This desk is not ranking them.
Friday's story on this site recorded the weigh-ins and said the fights had not started. They have now, and that story carries a note pointing here.
How we know

Notes

  1. 1.UFC, “UFC 333: Volkanovski vs Evloev Results,” Oct. 24, 2026, E. Spencer Kyte. https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-333-volkanovski-vs-evloev-results “Alexander Volkanovski put a stamp on his championship win over Movsar Evloev, handing the undefeated Russian challenger his first loss with a dramatic second-round finish.” “this win pushed him ahead of Jose Aldo for most title fight wins in featherweight history.” “Petr Yan successfully defended the UFC bantamweight title” against Merab Dvalishvili. The article gives the score as a unanimous decision, 48-47, 48-47, 48-47. Event page, https://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-333 , lists the main event as KO/TKO at 4:54 of round 2 and the co-main as a unanimous decision after five rounds. Fight of the Night is labeled on the Yan bout. Performance of the Night is labeled on Volkanovski and on Kavanagh. No odds are used from that page.
  2. 2.Same event page, read Oct. 25, 2026. Main card also: Lone'er Kavanagh def. Ramazan Temirov, KO/TKO, round 1, 4:28. Alexander Volkov def. Rizvan Kuniev, unanimous decision, round 3. The results article gives Volkov's scores as 29-28, 30-27, 30-27. Aaron Pico def. Losene Keita, KO/TKO, round 1, 1:14. Prelims: Dominick Reyes def. Azamat Murzakanov, KO/TKO, round 1, 2:40. Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev def. Nikita Krylov, KO/TKO, round 1, 2:38. Abus Magomedov def. Cam Rowston, submission, round 1, 1:44. Grant Dawson def. Nurullo Aliev, unanimous decision, round 3. Early prelims: Colby Thicknesse def. Asaf Chopurov, split decision, round 3. Abubakar Vagaev def. Jacob Malkoun, unanimous decision, round 3. Daniel Santos def. Bolaji Oki, unanimous decision, round 3. Kody Steele def. Noah Gugnon, KO/TKO, round 1, 3:54. Iasmin Lucindo def. Nicolle Caliari, unanimous decision, round 3. The first win-or-loss label on each bout applies to the fighter named first. That reading matches the results article on the main card. Thicknesse is the first name on a bout the page marks a split-decision win.

What is still unknown or disputed

  • Bonus amounts. Not printed in the results article used here.
  • A medical report on Evloev or anyone else. Not in the results article.
  • No betting line is printed.

Primary sources

Every claim in this story is drawn from the documents below. If a fetch failed, that is recorded on the card.

  1. Source 1

    UFC 333: Volkanovski vs Evloev Results

    UFC · October 24, 2026

    Volkanovski stopped Evloev in round 2. Yan beat Dvalishvili by unanimous decision, 48-47 on all three cards.

    https://www.ufc.com/news/ufc-333-volkanovski-vs-evloev-results

  2. Source 2

    UFC 333 event page

    UFC · October 24, 2026

    Official methods and times for the card at Etihad Arena, including Colby Thicknesse's split-decision win.

    https://www.ufc.com/event/ufc-333