WSOF 34 highlights: Justin Gaethje mangles Luiz Firmino's eye, Jon Fitch hints at retirement

WSOF closed out 2016 with its Big Apple debut and a fight slate that included four title bouts. Check out the highlights.

Saturday’s event took place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and the network-televised main card aired on NBC following prelims on NBCSN and MMAjunkie.

In the main event, lightweight champion Justin Gaethje (17-0) posted yet another title defense – yet again in spectacular, crowd-pleasing fashion – after stopping game challenger Luiz Firmino (19-8) due to an eye injury.

Here are the highlights and the doctor’s stoppage:

In the co-headliner, welterweight champion Jon Fitch (29-7-1) retained his title with a convincing decision win over Jake Shields (31-9-1) – and then hinted at a possible retirement:

In the main card’s first title fight, bantamweight champion Marlon Moraes (18-4-1) retained his title with a first-round stoppage win over Josenaldo Silva (25-5), who was forced to submit due to an injury:

On the NBCSN prelims, heavyweight Caio Alencar (11-1) stopped Jared Rosholt (14-4) in 77 seconds, middleweight champ David Branch (20-3) choked out Louis Taylor (13-4) in the second round, and light heavyweight Smealinho Rama (10-2) punched out Jake Heun (10-6):

For more on WSOF 34, including a full event recap, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.