The result and the three scorecards
The official UFC 330 event page identifies the event and matchup. Fights Now’s stored ESPN UFC import records Islam Makhachev defeating Ian Machado Garry by decision, with the result line closing at 5:00 of round five, and associates that result with UFC 330. An accessible Sherdog event record provides a secondary cross-check and records a unanimous decision with cards of 49-46, 49-46 and 48-47. Its round-scoring results page is linked for readers who want the fuller secondary record. This analysis replaces the prediction-led framing that appeared on this URL before the event.
Those cards add useful precision to the result line. All three judges selected Makhachev, which is why the decision is unanimous rather than split. Two judges produced the same 49-46 total, while the 48-47 card reflects a narrower overall margin from the third judge. The totals still do not identify which exchanges created those margins, so they support a scorecard analysis without supporting an invented action-by-action recap.
What the outcome changes from the preview
Before UFC 330, the central question was whether either athlete could impose a winning approach over a five-round main event. The completed record now resolves that question: Makhachev won after the contest ran through round five, and every judge returned a winning total for him. Garry remained in the contest until the recorded final time, but the decision did not go his way. The result converts a speculative matchup page into a record of a shared judicial conclusion, while leaving tactical claims to evidence that can actually support them.
The agreement between the judges is more informative than merely saying the fight lasted. It shows that the disagreement was about margin, not winner: the three totals differ, but none favors Garry. At the same time, 49-46 and 48-47 are summaries of scoring, not descriptions of pace, damage or control. This article therefore reports the consensus and its range without assigning specific rounds or motives to judges.
A full-distance result, not a reconstructed recap
For Makhachev, the durable consequence is another recorded win attached to a completed five-round result. For Garry, the durable consequence is a decision loss rather than a stoppage loss. Those facts can inform later coverage, but they do not automatically settle future matchmaking, rankings or title questions. Fights Now will treat any such development as a separate claim that needs its own dated source instead of projecting it from this result.
This page therefore serves a different purpose from the original preview. It preserves the existing canonical URL while giving readers the final result, a measured interpretation of what that result proves, and explicit limits on what is not yet evidenced. It will not be expanded with reconstructed action, unattributed quotations or assumed score details simply to make the account sound more complete.
Source status and limitations
Source status: the stored winner, method, round and time fields came from Fights Now’s ESPN UFC import. That import is present in the database and remains marked pending in Fights Now’s internal verification workflow. The official UFC event page is linked for event and matchup identity, not as the source of those result fields. The two linked Sherdog records independently cross-check the decision and scorecards. This article intentionally excludes detailed bout statistics, a round narrative and post-fight quotations. If a later authoritative source conflicts with a stored field, Fights Now will correct it and disclose the material change.
Last editorial scope: result, method, round, time, event link and evidence limits. No claim in this analysis should be read as an independent scoring of the fight. Readers can inspect the linked event and result records; the pending label describes Fights Now’s internal review status, not a future ESPN import.