UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Duncan Results — Allen Submits Duncan in Round 5, Ties Middleweight Wins Record
Event: UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Duncan (UFC Vegas 122 / UFC Fight Night 290) — October 10, 2026, Meta Apex, Las Vegas
Image credit: UFC.com
Brendan Allen (Image: UFC.com)
Brendan Allen needed almost all five rounds. Then his grappling took over one last time.
Allen submitted Christian Leroy Duncan with a rear-naked choke at 2:46 of round five in the main event at the Meta Apex on Saturday night. It was the headline moment of a finish-heavy card: nine of the 12 bouts ended inside the distance, and every preliminary fight that produced a winner ended in round one or two. [1][2]
The win is Allen's fourth in a row. It also takes him to 16 UFC wins at middleweight. That ties the divisional record held by Brad Tavares and Michael Bisping — the mark we tracked in our middleweight record-watch preview. Allen is now 28-7 overall. Duncan falls to 15-3, loses a five-fight winning streak, and is finished for the first time in his career. [2][3][4]
Full results
Main card
- Brendan Allen def. Christian Leroy Duncan — Submission (rear-naked choke), R5, 2:46 — middleweight
- Jai Herbert def. Matheus Camilo — Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28), R3, 5:00 — lightweight
- Loopy Godínez def. Ketlen Souza — Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28), R3, 5:00 — catchweight (117 lb)
- Andre Fili def. Kai Kamaka III — KO (head kick), R2, 0:22 — featherweight
- Otari Tanzilovi def. Malcolm Wellmaker — TKO (head kick and punches), R2, 2:39 — bantamweight
Preliminary card
- Julius Walker def. Gerald Meerschaert — TKO (punches), R2, 3:35 — light heavyweight
- Francisco Prado def. Ismael Bonfim — TKO (punches), R1, 4:23 — catchweight (163.5 lb)
- Niko Price def. Leon Shahbazyan — TKO (punch and knee), R1, 1:58 — welterweight
- Brendson Ribeiro def. Felipe Franco — Submission (guillotine choke), R1, 1:49 — catchweight (208.5 lb)
- Allen Frye Jr. def. RJ Harris — KO (punches), R1, 2:59 — heavyweight
- Alice Pereira def. Darya Zheleznyakova — TKO (retirement), R1, 5:00 — women's bantamweight
- Melissa Gatto vs. Ernesta Kareckaitė — Draw (majority) (29–27, 28–28, 28–28), R3, 5:00 — women's flyweight
Results cross-checked across Wikipedia, UFC.com and MMA Weekly. [1][2][5] Two points were deducted on the night: Duncan lost a point in round two for an eye poke, and Kareckaitė lost a point in round one for grabbing the fence. [1]
The main event
Christian Leroy Duncan (Image: UFC.com)
Duncan had the better of the striking for long spells. He outlanded Allen 90 to 48 in significant strikes. Allen won the fight somewhere else: three takedowns, more than seven minutes of control time, and repeated back takes that wore Duncan down. [6]
The point deduction mattered. With it, Allen led 38–37 on all three scorecards going into the fifth round. He still closed the show himself. He dragged Duncan down against the fence in round five, climbed onto his back, and finished the choke with just over two minutes left. [4][7]
It is a familiar finish for Allen. Verified against the OctagonStats dataset, six of his seven UFC submission wins before Saturday were rear-naked chokes. Duncan makes seven rear-naked chokes, and eight submission wins in the UFC in total.
After the fight, Allen called for a title shot. Failing that, he named former champion Dricus Du Plessis as the opponent he wants next. [7]
For the full tale of the tape and the numbers both men carried in, see our Allen vs. Duncan pre-event facts.
Two head kicks, four $100K bonuses
There was no Fight of the Night award. Four fighters took Performance of the Night instead, worth $100,000 each: Allen, Andre Fili, Otari Tanzilovi and Alice Pereira. [1][8]
Fili and Tanzilovi won theirs the same way, minutes apart at the top of the main card. Tanzilovi dropped Wellmaker with a head kick at 2:39 of round two for his first UFC win. Fili then knocked Kamaka out with a head kick just 22 seconds into round two — the second-fastest finish of the night, and a win that ends a two-fight skid for the veteran. [2][8]
Pereira, 20, made it two first-round finishes in two UFC appearances. She cut Zheleznyakova with an elbow on the ground, and her opponent did not come out for round two. [8]
The weight misses went 1–2, the replacements went 1–1
Three fighters missed weight on Friday, and all three bouts went ahead at catchweight. Souza missed by one pound, Ribeiro by two and a half, and Bonfim by seven and a half — the biggest miss of the card. The fines were 20 per cent of Souza's purse to Godínez, 25 per cent of Bonfim's purse to Prado, and 20 per cent of Ribeiro's purse to Franco. [1]
Missing weight did not help. Souza lost a unanimous decision to Godínez, who sealed the third round with a late takedown. Bonfim was stopped by Prado in round one. Only Ribeiro won: the short-notice replacement submitted Franco with a guillotine choke in 1:49, despite giving up part of his own purse. [1][2]
So the two late replacements split the night. Ribeiro, in for Alexander Poppeck, won by submission. Bonfim, in for Artur Minev, was finished in the first round. [1]
The prelims were relentless besides. Price, Frye Jr. and Prado all finished in round one, and Walker stopped veteran Gerald Meerschaert in round two of the featured prelim. The only prelim without a finish was the opener: Gatto and Kareckaitė fought to a majority draw, with the fence-grab point deduction costing Kareckaitė a win on the cards. [1][2]
Meerschaert retires
Gerald Meerschaert retired after the Walker loss. The 38-year-old laid his gloves in the Octagon after his sixth straight defeat, ending a 60-fight professional career (37–23) and nearly a decade in the UFC. He leaves with the UFC middleweight records for most finishes (12) and most submission wins (11, tied with Demian Maia). [9]
What it means
Allen leaves Las Vegas tied for the most middleweight wins in UFC history, on a four-fight winning streak, and still in the top five. Wins over Marvin Vettori, Reinier de Ridder, Edmen Shahbazyan and now Duncan make a strong run — but the two men who beat him in 2024 and 2025, Nassourdine Imavov and Anthony Hernandez, still sit in the title picture ahead of him. A fight with Du Plessis, as Allen asked for, would be the fastest way to change that. [3][4]
Duncan's rise pauses rather than ends. He was competitive for four rounds in his first UFC main event, outstruck a top-five opponent, and was only finished late after a point deduction had already put him behind. He should keep a top-15 place and get another ranked opponent next.
Jai Herbert's unanimous decision over Matheus Camilo in the co-main event is quieter good news: three 29–28 cards after Camilo started the faster of the two. And at bantamweight, Pereira and Tanzilovi both announced themselves on the same night — one with pressure and elbows, one with a single head kick.
Sources
1. Wikipedia — UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Duncan (full results, weigh-in misses and fines, point deductions, bonus awards)
2. UFC.com — Official scorecards and event results
3. OctagonStats database (local UFCStats dataset, ~/workspace/ufcstats/) — Allen's pre-fight UFC record verified bout by bout: 15 UFC wins, seven by submission, six of those by rear-naked choke
4. TheScore — Allen submits Duncan in the fifth round of the UFC main event (scorecards entering round five, winning streaks)
5. MMA Weekly — UFC Vegas 122: Allen vs. Duncan live results
6. Sportradar — Allen vs. Duncan fight statistics (significant strikes 90–48 to Duncan; control time 7:17 to 3:51 to Allen; takedowns 3–0 to Allen)
7. 411Mania — live coverage of UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Duncan (round-five finish sequence; Allen's post-fight callout of a title shot or Dricus Du Plessis)
8. UFC.com — Bonus coverage; Sherdog — UFC Vegas 122 bonuses report ($100,000 Performance of the Night awards)
9. SI.com — UFC record holder retires after 10-year UFC career; Bloody Elbow — Meerschaert announces retirement (gloves laid down in the Octagon, post-fight interview with Michael Bisping, middleweight finish and submission records)
Fight data compiled from public statistical sources (ufcstats.com) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). OctagonStats is an independent database, not affiliated with UFC / TKO Group.