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Events · UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Kennedy · Michael Bisping vs Tim Kennedy
From the tape · 16 Apr 2014

Michael Bisping vs Tim Kennedy

UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Kennedy · Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Result

Tim Kennedy beat Michael Bisping

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · Yves Lavigne

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

MB
Red corner MichaelBisping“The Count”HB Ultimate · Manchester
VSOn the tape
TK
Blue corner TimKennedyJackson-Wink MMA · Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Middleweight5 rounds16 Apr 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 17 more than Kennedy.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Bisping.
30-9
Record
18-6
35
Age
−1 yr34
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1719
UFC bouts
2
8/1457% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
HB Ultimate
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Manchester
From
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Michael Bisping0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 4 thrown

Tim Kennedy9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%3 of 3
0 of 4
Sig.
strikes
9 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
4:42
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 6
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Bisping17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 47BODY6%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Tim Kennedy11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 14BODY55%6 of 7LEGS9%1 of 1
17 of 49
Sig.
strikes
11 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:03
Control
0:30
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action
Michael Bisping1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Tim Kennedy5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 8
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:18
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action
Michael Bisping14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 26BODY21%3 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
Tim Kennedy13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 22BODY8%1 of 6LEGS15%2 of 4
14 of 32
Sig.
strikes
13 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:44
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Bisping8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 43BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Tim Kennedy13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 20BODY23%3 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
8 of 44
Sig.
strikes
13 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
1:47
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Michael Bisping first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide46–49
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide45–50

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Michael Bisping

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.58 / 15m
2.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.37 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
35%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Tim Kennedy

2.58takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Michael Bisping↑ +6.8pp
open 58.3%close 65.2%
Tim Kennedy↓ −6.8pp
open 41.7%close 34.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Bisping opened at 58.3% and closed at 65.2% (+6.8pp), with Tim Kennedy moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Michael Bisping-165-20258.3%65.2%+6.8pp
Tim Kennedy12518041.7%34.8%−6.8pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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