UFC 218 results: Amanda Cooper puts on show for home fans, dominates Angela Magana for TKO

Amanda Cooper was so dominant that even the fence couldn’t save Angela Magana, no matter how she clung to it.

Cooper (3-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) put a one-sided beatdown on Magana (11-9 MMA, 0-3 UFC) from start to finish, eventually earning a TKO stoppage with strikes on the mat at the 4:34 mark of Round 2.

The women’s strawweight bout was part of the preliminary card of today’s UFC 218 event at the new Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit. It streamed on UFC Fight Pass ahead of additional prelims on FS1 and a main card on pay-per-view.

Cooper wasted little time getting Magana to the ground in this one, and even a blatant fence grab by Magana early in the first round wasn’t enough to stop her from implementing her game plan.

After hauling Magana down, Cooper quickly took control from the top position, battering Magana with strikes and taking her back, nearly earning a stoppage before running out of time in the first.

Cooper got right back to work in the second, taking Magana down in the opening seconds of the round and then swarming her with strikes from back mount, which eventually forced referee Keith Peterson to call it off with just under 30 seconds left in the round.

The victory gets Cooper back in the win column for the first time since her submission loss to Cynthia Calvillo at UFC 209 in March. Magana has now lost three straight in the UFC, and five straight overall.

Up-to-the-minute UFC 218 results include:

• Amanda Cooper def. Angela Magana via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 4:34
• Abdul Razak Alhassan def. Sabah Homasi via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 4:21
• Dominick Reyes def. Jeremy Kimball via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 3:39
• Justin Willis def. Allen Crowder via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 2:33

For complete coverage of UFC 218, check out the UFC Events section of the site.

(MMAjunkie’s Matt Erickson and Mike Bohn contributed to this report on site in Detroit.)