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UFC 205
UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor, November 12, 2016, Madison Square Garden, New York City. Conor McGregor TKO'd Eddie Alvarez to become the first simultaneous two-division UFC champion; three title fights, $17.7 million gate record.
UFC 206
UFC 206 (Holloway vs. Pettis), December 10, 2016, Toronto: Max Holloway TKO'd Anthony Pettis in round 3 for the interim featherweight title after Pettis missed weight; Cerrone KO'd Brown.
UFC 207
UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey, a UFC pay-per-view held December 30, 2016 at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, where Amanda Nunes retained the women's bantamweight title by 48-second TKO of returning Ronda Rousey and Cody Garbrandt won the men's bantamweight belt from Dominick Cruz.
UFC 208
UFC 208 (Holm vs. de Randamie), Feb 11, 2017, Barclays Center, Brooklyn: Germaine de Randamie won the inaugural UFC women's featherweight title over Holly Holm amid after-the-bell punches; Anderson Silva edged Derek Brunson controversially.
UFC 209
UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2, a UFC pay-per-view on March 4, 2017 at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. Tyron Woodley retained the welterweight title by majority decision over Stephen Thompson; the Khabib Nurmagomedov-Tony Ferguson interim lightweight title bout was cancelled after Nurmagomedov's hospitalization during his weight cut.
UFC 210
UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2, UFC pay-per-view, April 8, 2017, KeyBank Center, Buffalo, New York. Daniel Cormier retained the light heavyweight title by submitting Anthony Johnson after a disputed towel weigh-in; Mousasi beat Weidman by controversial TKO.
UFC 211
UFC 211: Miocic vs. Dos Santos 2, a UFC pay-per-view on May 13, 2017 in Dallas, Texas. Stipe Miocic TKO'd Junior Dos Santos in round one, Jedrzejczyk outpointed Andrade, and Alvarez-Poirier ended in a no contest.
UFC 212
UFC 212 (Aldo vs. Holloway), June 3, 2017, Jeunesse Arena, Rio de Janeiro: Max Holloway TKO'd Jose Aldo at 4:13 of round three to unify the UFC featherweight title, his 11th straight win.
UFC 213
UFC 213 (Romero vs. Whittaker), July 8, 2017, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas: Whittaker beat Romero by 48-47 unanimous decision for the interim middleweight title after Nunes-Shevchenko was canceled; attendance 12,834.
UFC 214
UFC 214 (Cormier vs. Jones 2), July 29, 2017, Honda Center, Anaheim: Jon Jones TKO'd Daniel Cormier for the light heavyweight title, but the win was overturned to a no contest after a Turinabol positive; Woodley and Cyborg defended their belts.
UFC 215
UFC 215, a 2017 UFC pay-per-view at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, the promotion's first Edmonton event. Amanda Nunes retained the women's bantamweight title with a split decision over Valentina Shevchenko after the Johnson vs Borg headliner fell out.
UFC 216
UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee, October 7, 2017, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. Tony Ferguson won the interim lightweight title by triangle choke; Demetrious Johnson set the UFC record with an 11th title defense via suplex-to-armbar over Ray Borg.
UFC 217
UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre, UFC pay-per-view, Nov 4, 2017, Madison Square Garden, New York. All three champions lost: St-Pierre submitted Bisping, Dillashaw KO'd Garbrandt, Namajunas KO'd Jedrzejczyk.
UFC 218
UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2, a UFC pay-per-view held December 2, 2017 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, where Max Holloway retained the featherweight title by third-round TKO over Jose Aldo and Francis Ngannou knocked out Alistair Overeem.
UFC 219
UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm, a UFC pay-per-view event on December 30, 2017 at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, where Cris Cyborg retained the women's featherweight title against Holly Holm by unanimous decision.
UFC 220
UFC 220 (Miocic vs. Ngannou), a UFC pay-per-view on January 20, 2018 at TD Garden, Boston: Stipe Miocic outpointed Francis Ngannou 50-44 across the cards for a record third straight heavyweight title defense; Cormier stopped Oezdemir.
UFC 221
UFC 221: Rockhold vs. Romero, a 2018 UFC pay-per-view at Perth Arena, Western Australia, where Yoel Romero KO'd Luke Rockhold in round 3 but missed weight and could not win the interim middleweight title.
UFC 222
UFC 222 (Cyborg vs. Kunitskaya), UFC pay-per-view, March 3, 2018, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. Cris Cyborg TKO'd Yana Kunitskaya in 3:25 for her second women's featherweight title defense; Brian Ortega KO'd Frankie Edgar in 4:44.
UFC 223
UFC 223 (April 7, 2018, Barclays Center, Brooklyn): Khabib Nurmagomedov beat Al Iaquinta by unanimous decision for the lightweight title; Rose Namajunas retained strawweight gold over Jedrzejczyk; McGregor's bus attack and weigh-in chaos defined the event.
UFC 224
UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington, UFC pay-per-view, May 12, 2018, Jeunesse Arena, Rio de Janeiro. Amanda Nunes retained the women's bantamweight title, stopping Raquel Pennington in round five after a corner controversy; Gastelum beat Souza.
UFC 225
UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2, a UFC pay-per-view on June 9, 2018 at Chicago's United Center. Whittaker beat Romero by split decision in a non-title bout after Romero missed weight by 0.2 pounds; Covington won interim welterweight gold.
UFC 226
UFC 226: Miocic vs. Cormier, a July 7, 2018 UFC pay-per-view at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, where Daniel Cormier knocked out Stipe Miocic in Round 1 to become the second simultaneous two-division UFC champion, with Brock Lesnar's post-fight Octagon confrontation.
UFC 227
UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2, UFC pay-per-view, August 4, 2018, Staples Center, Los Angeles. Dillashaw TKO'd Garbrandt in round one (4:10) to defend the bantamweight title; Henry Cejudo took Demetrious Johnson's flyweight belt by split decision; 17,794 attendance, $2.85M gate.
UFC 228
UFC 228, also called Woodley vs. Till, was a UFC pay-per-view on September 8, 2018 in Dallas, where Tyron Woodley submitted Darren Till for his fourth welterweight title defense and Jessica Andrade knocked out Karolina Kowalkiewicz.
UFC 229
UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor, October 6, 2018, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. Nurmagomedov submitted McGregor in round 4; 20,034 attendance, $17.2M gate, record ~2.4M PPV buys, post-fight brawl.
UFC 230
UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis, a 2018 UFC pay-per-view at Madison Square Garden, New York, where Daniel Cormier defended the heavyweight title by submitting Derrick Lewis in round two.
UFC 231
UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega, December 8, 2018, Toronto. Max Holloway beat unbeaten Brian Ortega by fourth-round doctor stoppage with a record 290 significant strikes; Shevchenko won the vacant flyweight title.
UFC 232
UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2, a UFC pay-per-view held December 29, 2018 at the Forum in Inglewood, California, moved from Las Vegas after Nevada declined to license Jon Jones over turinabol metabolite traces; Jones regained the light heavyweight title by TKO and Amanda Nunes knocked out Cris Cyborg.
UFC 233
UFC 233 was a scheduled UFC pay-per-view for January 26, 2019 at Honda Center, Anaheim, headlined by Cejudo vs Dillashaw; the bout moved to UFC Brooklyn and the event was cancelled, skipping the number 233.
UFC 234
UFC 234 (Adesanya vs. Silva), UFC event, February 9, 2019, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne. Whittaker-Gastelum title fight canceled by Whittaker's hernia; Adesanya beat Silva by unanimous decision; 15,238 sellout, about 175,000 buys.