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History · 2014 · Luke Barnatt vs Sean Strickland
From the tape · 31 May 2014

Luke Barnatt vs Sean Strickland

Result

Sean Strickland beat Luke Barnatt

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Grant Waterman

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.

LB
Red corner LukeBarnatt“The Bigslow”Tsunami Gym · Barking, Essex
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SeanStricklandXtreme Couture · Anaheim, California
Middleweight3 rounds31 May 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Barnatt.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
13-4
Record
31-7
26
Age
−3 yr23
+5″6' 6"
Height
6' 1"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
2/367% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Tsunami Gym
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Barking, Essex
From
Anaheim, California
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Luke Barnatt13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 40BODY38%5 of 12LEGS38%5 of 12
Sean Strickland19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 43BODY0%0 of 1LEGS53%10 of 16
13 of 64
Sig.
strikes
19 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barnatt firstMark Collett9–10Andy Haigh9–10Howard Hughes9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Luke Barnatt21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 44BODY29%6 of 13LEGS10%2 of 8
Sean Strickland15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 41BODY0%0 of 2LEGS13%2 of 3
21 of 65
Sig.
strikes
15 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:05
Control
0:36
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Barnatt firstMark Collett10–9Andy Haigh9–10Howard Hughes9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Luke Barnatt10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 49BODY30%3 of 8LEGS0%0 of 1
Sean Strickland14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 51BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 2
10 of 58
Sig.
strikes
14 of 55
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:23
Control
0:05
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barnatt firstMark Collett10–9Andy Haigh9–10Howard Hughes10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Grant Waterman
Luke BarnattSean Strickland
Official totals — Luke Barnatt first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Andy Haigh27–30
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 11 scored, Luke Barnatt first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Cage Pages.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com29–28
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com30–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Greg Savage Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Barnatt · 36%29-28 Barnatt · 32%30-28 Barnatt · 14%29-28 Strickland · 8%30-27 Strickland · 6%

115 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

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.

Luke Barnatt

0.63takedowns / 15 min
0.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.66 / 15m
1.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.06 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
62%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Sean Strickland

0.66takedowns / 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.

Luke Barnatt↑ +0.7pp
open 58.3%close 59.0%
Sean Strickland↓ −0.7pp
open 41.7%close 41.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Luke Barnatt opened at 58.3% and closed at 59.0% (+0.7pp), with Sean Strickland 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
Luke Barnatt-165-15358.3%59.0%+0.7pp
Sean Strickland12513841.7%41.0%−0.7pp
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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