UFC Fight Night 88 flew under the radar a bit. With the Sunday card wedged between higher-wattage pay-per-view cards and stashed in the guts of a holiday weekend, it’s understandable that fans might overlook this bout.
They shouldn’t have.
This event was chock-full of young talent and potentially explosive matchups. In the main event, undefeated up-and-comers Thomas Almeida and Cody Garbrandt squared off to see who was ready to contend in the bantamweight division.
In the co-main event, former bantamweight champ Renan Barao made his UFC featherweight debut against headhunter Jeremy Stephens. Coming into Sunday, these two had 24 knockout wins between them.
There was intrigue all up and down the 12-fight slate, and as always, the final stat lines only reveal so much. The following are the real winners and losers from UFC Fight Night 88.
For the literal-minded among us, full results appear on the final slide.