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History · 2015 · UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano · Derrick Lewis vs Ruan Potts
From the tape · 28 Feb 2015

Derrick Lewis vs Ruan Potts

UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Derrick Lewis beat Ruan Potts

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:18
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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.

Red corner DerrickLewis“The Black Beast”Main Street Boxing & Muay Thai · Houston, Texas
VSOn the tape
RP
Blue corner RuanPotts“Fangzz”Mark Robinson MMA · Cape Town, Western Cape
Heavyweight3 rounds28 Feb 2015
The story going in
  • Carries 17 points more striking defence than Potts.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
29-14
Record
11-6
−7 yr30
Age
37
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+4″79″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+13
UFC bouts
2
Main Street Boxing & Muay Thai
Gym
Mark Robinson MMA
Houston, Texas
From
Cape Town, Western Cape
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Derrick Lewis17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 27BODY18%3 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Ruan Potts7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 5BODY29%2 of 4LEGS43%3 of 3
17 of 31
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:10
Control
1:40
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
Round 23:18 of actionEnded 3:18
Derrick Lewis36 sig landed
HEAD94%34 of 49BODY6%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ruan Potts0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

36 of 51
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:58
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 33
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Derrick Lewis

Round
2
Clock
3:18
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jerin Valel.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Derrick Lewis

0.55takedowns / 15 min
0.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
2.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.69 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
16%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.30 / 15m

Ruan Potts

0.75takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Derrick Lewis↑ +10.7pp
open 74.3%close 85.0%
Ruan Potts↓ −10.7pp
open 25.7%close 15.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Derrick Lewis opened at 74.3% and closed at 85.0% (+10.7pp), with Ruan Potts 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
Derrick Lewis-385-70274.3%85.0%+10.7pp
Ruan Potts26554725.7%15.0%−10.7pp
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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