UFC 247 is in the books, along with its share of action and controversy.

In the main event, Jon Jones scraped past title challenger Dominick Reyes to retain his light heavyweight belt, in a fight that many onlookers thought should have been scored the other way.

Valentina Shevchenko left no such doubt, as she demolished Katlyn Chookagian via third round ground-and-pound stoppage to keep her flyweight belt.

New Zealander Justin Tafa was the one who turned heads, with a TKO victory reminiscent of Mark Hunt in his glory days.

Tafa was more patient than in his UFC debut, stalking his opponent Juan Adams from the outside before he found his opening.

Around 90 seconds into the first round, in a clinch exchange Tafa framed off the head of Adams and landed a pair of nasty left hands to the head.

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Following this, as Adams took the centre of the octagon again, Tafa leapt forth with a lead right hook which cracked Adams’ head back and sent him reeling to the fence.

Tafa followed up with vicious intent, landing a right uppercut with just crushed the chin of Adams and crumpled him to the canvas.

Tafa followed up with some ground-and-pound strikes but the referee had seen enough, waving off the contest to save Adams from more damage.

Perhaps a slightly early stoppage, though the shots which Adams took would make any referee look twice.

The rest of the card had its share of action, with welterweight James Krause stepping up on 18 hours’ notice to lose a razor-close split decision to middleweight Trevin Giles.

More controversy came in the early prelims, where Andre Ewell took a split decision victory over Jonathan Martinez despite getting outworked over three rounds.

One judge: Joe Solis (the same judge that gave Jon Jones 49-46 in the main event) scored all three rounds for Ewell. I suspect that Joe Solis will be under scrutiny in the coming days.

The full fight card results are given below:

RESULTS:

Main Card

Jon Jones def. Dominick Reyes by unanimous decision

Valentina Shevchenko def. Katlyn Chookagian by TKO round 3

Justin Tafa def. Juan Adams by TKO round 1

Dan Ige def. Mirsad Bektic by split decision

Derrick Lewis def. Ilir Latifi by unanimous decision

Prelims

Trevin Giles def. James Krause by split decision

Lauren Murphy def. Andrea Lee by split decision

Khaos Williams def. Alex Morono by KO round 1

Mario Bautista def. Miles Johns by TKO round 2

Early Prelims

Journey Newson def. Domingo Pilarte by TKO round 1

Andre Ewell def. Jonathan Martinez by split decision

Yousseff Zalal def. Austin Lingo by unanimous decision