MMA Judge Cards

Analysis of UFC judges and scores that you won’t find anywhere else.

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One way to measure a fighter's power is to look at their ratio of strikes landed to knockouts across their career.

Three #UFC fighters from the past decade stand out from the rest, averaging a ridiculous 22 to 23 strikes per knockout.

Any guesses as to who these three are?

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Dricus Du Plessis def Sean Strickland by split decision.

Projected Winner: Strickland (89.2%)

As usual, the model is over-confident in Strickland due to his high volume style. The fact that it looked that favorably upon Du Plessis in rounds 2-3-4 is probably enough proof that DDP deserved to win them.

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Raquel Pennington def Mayra Bueno Silva by U-DEC

Projected Winner: Pennington (99.2%)

Pennington with a dominant performance after dropping the first round. The 10-8 in R3 was definitely well earned.

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@UFCNews It took a few tries tonight but the judges finally figured it out.

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Movsar Evloev def Arnold Allen by U-DEC

Projected Winner: Evloev (74.4%)

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@UFCNews The rightful winner was crowned in the end, according to our #UFC round scoring model.

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Sean Woodson def Charles Jourdain by split decision.

Projected Winner: Woodson (89.5%)

Second decision of the night, second time all three judges turned in a unique scorecard. This time our #UFC model agreed with their winner.

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@UFCNews Our #UFC round scoring model had Sidey winning R2 and R3 (just like the majority of the judges).

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Ramon Taveras def Serhiy Sidey by split decision.

Projected Winner: Sidey (88.3%)

Incredibly unfortunate for Sidey that there was one dissenting judge in both R2 & R3. If he had won either of those rounds unanimously he would've won the fight.

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Leon Edwards def Colby Covington via U-DEC

Projected Winner: Edwards (83%)

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Alexandre Pantoja def Brandon Royval via U-DEC

Projected Winner: Pantoja (65%)

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Paddy Pimblett def Tony Ferguson by U-DEC

Projected Winner: Pimblett (99.7%)

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Alonzo Menifield def Dustin Jacoby by U-DEC

Projected Winner: Jacoby (80%)

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Irena Aldana def Karol Rosa by U-DEC

Projected Winner: Rosa (80%)

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Marc Diakiese def Kaue Fernandes by S-Dec

Projected Winner: Diakiese (79.7%)

👉Light on the striking (36 combined sig strikes)

👉Heavy on the grappling (10+ mins control time)

Rounds 1 & 2 could have gone either way so all three scorecards were reasonable.

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@UFCNews @KChimaev @InAbuDhabi @VisitAbuDhabi Our round scoring model disagreed with 10-8 in R1 but scored the fight 29-28 for Chimaev.

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Khamzat Chimaev def Kamaru Usman by M-Dec

Projected Winner: Chimaev (69%)

The scorecards were all over the place in this one.

R1- Our #UFC round scoring model did not agree with the 10-8. Even though Khamzat controlled most of the round he didn't do enough damage (only 16 sig strikes)

R2- Two judges gave it to Usman, but we liked Chimaev. The strikes were nearly even but Chimaev landed a takedown and earned control time.

R3- The one round where we agree with the majority score. Usman doubled up Chimaev in head strikes. Derek Cleary scored it for Chimaev.

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Trevor Peek def Mohammad Yahya by U-Dec

Projected Winner: Peek (83%)

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@UFCNews @InAbuDhabi @VisitAbuDhabi Our round scoring model gave R3 (and the victory) to Azaitar, but it could have gone either way.

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Sedriques Dumas def Abu Azaitar by U-Dec

Projected Winner: Azaitar (62%)

This bout came down to the third round. Our #UFC round scoring model gave Azaitar a slight edge, however all three judges scored it for Dumas.

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Muhammad Naimov def Nathaniel Wood by U-Dec

Projected Winner: Naimov (92%)

Straightforward scoring in this one as Naimov dominated R1 & R2 while Wood convincingly took R3. A clear 29-28 victory for Naimov.