UFC on ESPN 50 went down on Saturday night in Nashville, Tennessee, and it was a great night of MMA action when all was said and done.

In the main event, streaking bantamweight Cory Sandhagen took another big step toward a title shot, picking up his third-straight victory at the expense of No. 7-ranked contender Rob Font, who he defeated by unanimous decision with a steady diet of takedowns.

In the co-main event, wrestling standout Tatiana Suarez put herself in position for a title shot of her own, tapping out former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade in round two for the biggest victory over her undefeated career to date.

Earlier on the card, striking specialist Dustin Jacoby picked up a quick win over Kennedy to defend his No. 15 spot in the light heavyweight rankings, while fighters like Diego Lopes, Tanner Boser, and Carlston Harris also impressed earlier on the card.

Keep scrolling for the real winners and losers of this action-packed card in "Music City."

UFC on ESPN 50 Full Card

UFC on ESPN 50 Main Card

Cory Sandhagen def. Rob Font via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45)

Tatiana Suarez def. Jessica Andrade via sub (guillotine choke) - Rd. 2, 1:31

Dustin Jacoby def. Kennedy Nzechukwu via TKO (punches) - Rd. 1, 1:22

Diego Lopes def. Gavin Tucker via submission (triangle-armbar) - Rd. 1, 1:38

Tanner Boser def. Aleksa Camur via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Ludovit Klein def. Ignacio Bahamondes via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)

UFC on ESPN 50 Undercard

Kyler Phillips def. Raoni Barcelos via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)

Carlston Harris def. Jeremiah Wells via submission (anaconda choke) - Rd. 3, 1:50

Billy Quarantillo def. Damon Jackson via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Cody Durden def. Jake Hadley via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Sean Woodson def. Dennis Buzukja via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Assu Almabayev def. Ode Osbourne via submission (rear-naked choke) - Rd. 2, 3:11

Winner: Keeping Your Eyes on the Prize

In the second bout of the UFC on ESPN 50 undercard, St. Louis-based featherweight Sean Woodson picked up a solid, unanimous-decision win over the debuting Dennis Buzukja.

It was an impressive performance from Woodson for a couple of reasons. For one, it was his first fight in almost a year, as he hadn't stepped foot in the Octagon since a split draw against Luis Saldana late last August. Woodson also showed some new layers to his game, flaunting some nice submission attacks and devastating knees, despite being known for his rangy boxing attack.

What made Woodson's UFC on ESPN 50 win truly impressive, though, is that Buzukja was his fourth opponent for the card.

He was first slated to fight Steve Garcia, was then rebooked to fight Mairon Santos, then matched up with Jesse Butler before finally signing up to fight Buzujka, who stepped up on just three days' notice.

In situations like this, we tend to give the bulk of the props to the fighter who stepped in on short notice, and less to the fighter who was already preparing for a fight. But Woodson should be commended for staying focused through what was surely one of the most frustrating fight camps of his career.

All of that chaos might have thrown a lesser fighter off their game, but he kept his eyes on the prize, and he got the win in style.

Winner: The Round Three King

Billy Quarantillo got off to a rough start in his UFC on ESPN 50 undercard scrap with Damon Jackson.

He absorbed a ton of punishment on the feet in the first round, and had a few close calls on the mat in the first minutes of the second. But as the second half of the fight got underway, he began to crank up the offense on the feet and on the canvas, and by the time it was over, had done enough to earn a unanimous decision victory.

It was an incredibly entertaining fight, due in large part to the wild momentum swing we witnessed as it wore on.

"I was born to fight like this," Quarantillo said in his post-fight interview. "Damon's a dog."

"He's a dog, man, but he brought it out in me and I got it done."

It was not the first time Quarantillo has mounted this kind of late-fight surge. The Tampa-based featherweight has won several entertaining decisions in similar fashion, and has finished four fights in the third round.

His latest late-fight effort was impressive enough for commentator Jon Anik to crown him "The Round Three King" after the fight had concluded. It's hard to think of a more accurate monicker for him.

Loser: Getting Complacent

Jeremiah Wells was fighting a perfect fight for nearly all of his UFC on ESPN 50 clash with Carlston Harris. The American welterweight was in total control of the matchup in rounds one and two, suffocating his foe on the mat, and looked like he was on his way to a lopsided unanimous-decision win.

But nothing is certain in MMA.

Just over a minute into the third round, after Wells shot for a takedown, Guyana's Harris locked up an anaconda choke—something we don't often see in MMA—and forced the tap. It was his second such choke in the UFC, and one of the most dramatic comebacks we've seen in quite a while.

It will also serve as a tough reminder for Wells, who was riding six-straight wins heading into the fight, that you can't let your guard down for a second in a high-level MMA fight. Sometimes, all it takes is a single moment of complacency.

"Any time you slip, you get caught," Harris said in his post-fight interview, claiming that he drilled anaconda chokes ahead of his fight with the American wrestler.

Loser: Clueless Booing

Tanner Boser and Aleksa Camur put forth one of the best fights of the UFC on ESPN 50 broadcast, which is saying something, considering the prevalence of entertaining scraps on the card. But you wouldn't have known it based on the fan response.

The fight admittedly got off to a bit of a slow start, as the two light heavyweights were pretty choosy with their shots in round two.

As the second round got underway, however, Boser began to launch a vicious boxing assault, repeatedly stinging Camur with hard shots. It ended up being an amazing display of toughness from Camur, who not only ate everything his foe dished out, but fired back until the final bell.

While it seemed like most people watching on the World Wide Web enjoyed this fast-paced light heavyweight fight, the fans in the building in Nashville evidently had a different perception of things.

They made plenty of noise when Boser was trying to take Camur's head off, but immediately showered the Canadian with boos every time he clinched in round three, which was pretty disappointing given the effort he was giving.

There's definitely a place for booing in MMA. Sometimes, a fight is so boring it sucks all the energy out of an arena. But this was not one of those fights. This was a good fight. A great fight even.

Let's save the boos for the next Derrick Lewis vs. Francis Ngannou or Clay Guida vs. Gray Maynard.

Winner: BJJ

There has been plenty of debate over the years about which martial arts are the most effective in MMA. It's the kind of debate that will never be settled, because its subjective by nature, but UFC on ESPN 50 made a strong case for high-level jiu jitsu being one of the best weapons a fighter can carry into the cage.

Only three of the first nine fights on the card ended inside the distance, and all three of those fights were finished with amazing displays of jiu jitsu prowess.

First up, in the opening bout of the night, debuting Kazakh flyweight Asu Almabaev used a rear-naked choke to stop Ode Osbourne in the second round.

Several fights later, as we've already covered, Guyana's Carlston Harris mounted one of the most dramatic comebacks of the year, choking out Jeremiah Wells with a rare anaconda choke in the third round of a welterweight fight he looked doomed to lose by decision.

Then, in the third bout of the main card, Brazil's Diego Lopes authored arguably the best finish of the night, choking out tough Renzo Gracie black belt Gavin Tucker with triangle armbar in the first round of their featherweight fight. It was just the 11th triangle armbar in thousands of UFC fights.

Maybe there are better bases for MMA than Brazilian jiu jitsu in 2023. But after UFC on ESPN 50, it's clear "The Gentle Art" remains one of the most dangerous skills a fighter can possess.

Loser: Keeping the Streak Alive

Nigerian light heavyweight Kennedy Nzechukwu entered his UFC on ESPN 50 light heavyweight fight with Dustin Jacoby on a three-fight streak, having stopped Karl Roberson, Ion Cutelaba and Devin Clark since last summer. If he made it four in a row at the No. 15-ranked light heavyweight's expense, he almost certainly would have debuted in the rankings himself, at which point fights with the biggest stars in the division would have been at fingertips.

Unfortunately for him, that's not the way things went.

Instead, an aggressive Nzechukwu marched right into a right hand, and was finished off by ground strikes just moments later. The fight didn't even reach the two-minute mark.

"I didn't even know I hit him so clean, but I definitely saw him go down," Jacoby said in his post-fight interview.

The fight didn't just mark the end of Nzechukwu's win streak. It also ended Jacoby's losing streak.

The kickboxing specialist had lost back-to-back decisions to fellow strikers Khalil Rountree and Azamat Murzakanov, and would have stumbled right out of the rankings had he not turned things around in Nashville.

"This is my time right now," he said, before calling for a fight with No. 9 contender and fellow knockout puncher Volkan Oezdemir.

Winner: Fulfilling Your Destiny

We have have been talking about Tatiana Suarez as a potential strawweight champion since she she entered the UFC after winning the Ultimate Fighter in 2016. When she won her first five fights the promotion in emphatic fashion, it seemed like a near certainty she would eventually achieve that feat.

But then, the decorated wrestling specialist hit a speed bump. A big one.

She spent roughly three and half years on shelf, battling a series of serious injuries, until she nearly disappeared from our collective memory.

She finally returned to the cage earlier this year, taking on Montana De La Rosa one division up at flyweight, and won the fight with a second-round choke. It was a very impressive win, particularly after so much time away from competition, but defeating an unranked flyweight didn't do much to get her quest for the strawweight belt back on track.

Suarez's UFC on ESPN 50 fight with Jessica Andrade, which co-headlined the card in Nashville, was much more impactful in that regard.

Suarez got to work with her wrestling early in the first round of her fight with the former strawweight champ, and clearly banked a 10-9 round by the time it was over. In the end, however, scoring the fight would not be necessary, as Suarez tapped her experienced foe out with guillotine choke in round two.

"Her hands weren't even completely locked, that's how deep that choke was," commentator Dominick Cruz said after the finish.

It was easily the biggest win of Suarez's undefeated MMA career so far. In fact, if there wasn't already a queue of contenders waiting for a shot at the reigning strawweight champ Zhang Weili, the win over Andrade might even be enough to earn Suarez a title opportunity.

While Suarez will most likely need to win one more fight while Zhang deals with other contenders like Amanda Lemos, who she'll fight at UFC 292 later this month, a strawweight title win is once again looking like the wrestler's destiny.

Winner: Doing What You Need to Do

Cory Sandhagen is known for his wild striking, which has led to some highlight reel knockout wins, but we got to see a different side of his game in the UFC on ESPN 50 main event.

Sandhagen had originally been set to fight rising contender Umar Nurmagomedov on the card, but accepted a fight with No. 7-ranked bantamweight Rob Font on just a few weeks' notice when his original foe suffered an injury in training.

It was a dangerous gamble for Sandhagen, as Font is one of the few strikers in the weight class with the striking skill and power to rival his own. He mitigated that risk but leaning on his wrestling, which we don't get to see very often, and he was tremendously effective with this strategy. By the time the fight was over, he had completed more than five takedowns and racked up a huge amount of control time—more than enough to earn a wide, unanimous decision on the judges' scorecards.

Unfortunately, Sandhagen's strategy quickly drew the ire of the fans in Nashville, who once again let loose some deafening boos, as well as fans on social media. However, it was an extremely intelligent strategy, and one that earned him praise from commentators Michael Bisping and Dominick Cruz, both of whom are former UFC champions.

"It's a great strategy for Cory Sandhagen," Bisping said in round two.

"It might not be the most entertaining and what fans want to see, but this is how you win at the highest level," Cruz added later.

It was Sandhagen's third win in a row, and while he will have to wait for bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling to defend the belt against Sean O'Malley at UFC 292 later this month, he is clearly one of the top contenders in the weight class.

Had he attempted a riskier strategy in his Nashville fight with Font, it's possible that would no longer be the case.