With all kinds of memorable moments at UFC 206 and UFC Fight Night 102, what were the 10 best?

If you were one of those fight fans who looked at the lineup for UFC 206 and thought, “It’s a passable fight card, with a questionable title fight as the main event, but I’m going to sit this one out,” frankly, you messed up.

The five-fight main card, which culminated with Max Holloway capturing the interim UFC featherweight title, was action packed from start to finish, and just might have included the best fight of 2016 in the featherweight scrap between Dooho Choi and Cub Swanson.

The fight card, which took place Saturday from Air Canada Centre in Toronto, also featured a “Knockout of the Year” contender on the UFC Fight Pass prelims with Lando Vannata laying out John Makdessi with a head kick that fans are going to see in highlight reels for years to come.

UFC 206 wasn’t the only event of the weekend. The promotion also made a stop in New York at Albany’s Times Union Center on Friday for UFC Fight Night 102. That event was headlined by Derrick Lewis extending his unbeaten streak to five with a fourth-round TKO win over Shamil Abdurakhimov.

Here are 10 memorable moments from the UFC’s busy weekend.

1. Gold, gold, gold and more gold

How confident was Holloway he was going to leave Toronto with the interim featherweight strap? Confident enough to buy a gold tie, gold cuff links, gold pocket square, and I’m just going to assume gold socks and gold boxers, as well.

Holloway (17-3 MMA, 13-3 UFC) achieved his goal by doing something 24 previous opponents failed to do: He stopped Pettis (19-6 MMA, 6-5 UFC) within the distance. Then, with his confidence soaring, the freshly minted interim champ draped himself in all that gold and arranged a brunch with UFC bigwigs to set up his next move, which is hopefully a title unification bout against undisputed champion Jose Aldo. But if that fight’s not in the cards, and Holloway has his doubts, he’s not going to sit and wait for the champ, saying he plans on defending his interim title if that’s what he needs to do to prove he’s the best in the world.

2. His own worst critic

Lewis’ fight against Abdurakhimov wasn’t pretty, but Lewis was able to capitalize on his sole takedown and use ground strikes to finish Abdurakhimov for his fifth straight victory.

After the fight, Lewis (17-4 MMA, 8-2 UFC) didn’t mince words, calling his fourth-round stoppage of Abdurakhimov (17-4 MMA, 2-2 UFC) one of his “terriblest fights of all time,” and “some bull(expletive).”

Lewis will lose some momentum due to his performance in Albany, but judging from his comments, he’ll take the lessons of the fight and use them to become a better all-around fighter, and that’s one positive that will come out of this contest.

3. Still climbing

Donald Cerrone continued his assault on the welterweight division at UFC 206, earning his fourth straight stoppage win in the division, stopping Matt Brown with a perfectly placed head kick early in the third round.

These two put on one of the best fights of the night, with both fighters landing knockdown strikes before Cerrone’s head kick brought an abrupt ending to the matchup.

With the win, Cerrone (32-7 MMA, 19-4 UFC) will move one step closer to his goal of fighting for welterweight gold, while Brown (20-16 MMA, 13-10 UFC), well, it’s hard to tell what will become of him.

This loss puts Brown at 1-5 since July 2014, but he remains a tough fight for anyone at 170-pounds. There’s no doubt the highly competitive Brown will want to get right back at it, but as someone who made $73,000 in his most recent disclosed payday, Brown might find himself a victim of the ongoing UFC cost cutting.

4. He’s a mover

Where Lewis stalled in Albany, fellow heavyweight Francis Ngannou surged. The still developing fighter extended his stoppage streak to eight straight, four in the UFC, when he just straight up overpowered Anthony Hamilton, locking on a standing kimura, forcing Hamilton to the mat and submitting him on the ground with that technique.

Hamilton (15-6 MMA, 3-4 UFC) was the first fighter Ngannou (9-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) faced with previous UFC experience, but Ngannou handled him with ease, reinforcing that he’s someone to watch in the heavyweight division even though he’s been a pro for just over three years.

5. They both passed the test

Heading into the featherweight bout between Choi and Swanson there were two questions. The first, is Choi (14-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) for real? The second, does Swanson (24-7 MMA, 9-3 UFC) still have it? Both questions were answered with a resounding yes in Toronto.

In a clear “Fight of the Year” candidate, which Swanson won by decision, these two gave everything they had in the hopes of knocking each cold, luckily, at least for the fans, those efforts were unsuccessful.

The loss was the first of Choi’s UFC career, but there’s no way his stock will fall in defeat. As for Swanson, he’s put his losses to Frankie Edgar and Holloway in the rearview mirror and showed that he’ll be no one’s steppingstone to the top of the division.

6. On the right path

Before UFC Fight Night 102, Corey Anderson hadn’t earned a stoppage since he won Season 19 of “The Ultimate Fighter.” He wanted to end that drought against Sean O’Connell, and he did so emphatically.

Anderson (9-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) was controlled, patient and when the opportunity arose, violent against O’Connell (17-9 MMA, 2-5 UFC), using his wrestling and ground striking to end the light heavyweight matchup in the second round.

After the fight, Anderson said he’d been waiting to deliver that exact type of performance. With momentum swinging his way again, Anderson has to keep moving forward, training with Ricardo Almeida and Nick Catone puts Anderson in the right spot to do just that.

7. He needed that one

After UFC 206, Kelvin Gastelum said he did the UFC a solid, agreeing to step in to face Tim Kennedy at middleweight in Toronto on short notice. After being forced to withdraw from UFC 205 after badly missing the welterweight limit, I’m not sure the UFC would agree with Gastelum’s assessment on how this fight came together. But hey, after the performance he delivered against Kennedy, it’s easy to cut the guy some slack.

After a rough start, Gastelum (13-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) took advantage when Kennedy (18-6 MMA, 3-2 UFC), who was fighting for the first time since losing to Yoel Romero in September 2014, began to fade. Gastelum used fast and accurate strikes to bloody Kennedy on his way to a third-round TKO win.

8. Questions remain

Gian Villante fought a Gian Villante-style fight at UFC Fight Night 102. That is to say he showed glimpses of superiority, but he also displayed an alarming lack of cardio and suspect defense against UFC newcomer Saparbek Safarov.

Villante (15-7 MMA, 5-3 UFC) looked good early, landing powerful punches and hurting Safarov (8-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) on multiple occasions, but when Safarov came back and dropped Villante, Villante’s hands began to fall, as did his energy.

In the second round, Villante took advantage of a leg injury Safarov suffered in the first round, finishing the hobbled fighter via punches.

The victory didn’t answer many questions about Villante, nor did it reassure that he is progressing in his overall game.

9. Feeling “Groovy”

Vannata’s UFC debut, a second-round submission loss to Tony Ferguson, let everyone know that he was a fighter to keep an eye on. Vannata’s second fight, a knockout win over UFC veteran Makdessi at UFC 206, confirmed he has a bright future in the lightweight division.

Vannata (9-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) looked relaxed and confident against Makdessi (14-6 MMA, 7-6 UFC), and when he threw a lazy kick to the leg of Makdessi, no one, including Makdessi expected him to follow that with a spinning wheel kick directly to the jaw of Makdessi. As soon as Vannata’s heel hit Makdessi’s chin, the fight was over, and Vannata found himself in the running for “Knockout of the Year.”

It’s debatable if the kick was better than Edson Barboza’s brutal stoppage of Terry Etim at UFC 142, but there was no debate when it came time to dole out UFC 206’s “Performance of the Night” bonus awards.

10. Making statements

Gerald Meerschaert came to the UFC with 32 professional fights on his resume, so it wasn’t too surprising that the 28-year-old Team Roufusport middleweight looked confident in his abilities when he faced Joe Gigliotti at UFC Fight Night 102.

Meerschaert (25-8 MMA, 1-0 UFC) displayed excellent awareness during this fight, taking Gigliotti’s (7-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC) back after a judo throw and then transitioning from a guillotine choke into an anaconda choke for the first-round submission win, earning himself a “Performance of the Night” bonus.

If the decisive victory wasn’t enough to get Meerschaert noticed, he emphasized his goals in his post-fight interview, saying, “My name’s GM3 and I’m here to (expletive) up the whole middleweight division.”

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