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History · 2015 · UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm · Richard Walsh vs Steve Kennedy
From the tape · 14 Nov 2015

Richard Walsh vs Steve Kennedy

UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result

Richard Walsh beat Steve Kennedy

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · John Sharp

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.

RW
Red corner RichardWalsh“Filthy Rich”VT1 Martial Arts Academy · Sydney, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
SK
Blue corner SteveKennedy“The Steamrolla”Kickass MMA · Perth, Western Australia
Welterweight3 rounds14 Nov 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 66 points more takedown defence than Kennedy.
9-5
Record
24-8
−6 yr26
Age
32
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
VT1 Martial Arts Academy
Gym
Kickass MMA
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Perth, Western Australia
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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
Richard Walsh34 sig landed
HEAD50%17 of 43BODY12%4 of 5LEGS38%13 of 15
Steve Kennedy10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 33BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
34 of 63
Sig.
strikes
10 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:06
Control
2:21
Distance 25Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Walsh firstEvan Field10–9Barry Foley10–9Albert Shen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Richard Walsh34 sig landed
HEAD82%28 of 46BODY6%2 of 3LEGS12%4 of 4
Steve Kennedy13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 28BODY8%1 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
34 of 53
Sig.
strikes
13 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:29
Control
2:01
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 23
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Walsh firstEvan Field10–9Barry Foley10–9Albert Shen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Richard Walsh25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 38BODY28%7 of 11LEGS20%5 of 5
Steve Kennedy15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 31BODY13%2 of 3LEGS20%3 of 3
25 of 54
Sig.
strikes
15 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:53
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Walsh firstEvan Field10–9Barry Foley10–9Albert Shen10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · John Sharp
Richard WalshSteve Kennedy
Official totals — Richard Walsh first
JudgeTotal
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide30–27
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide30–27
Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% wide29–28

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 — 16 scored, Richard Walsh first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–26
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Walsh · 67%30-26 Walsh · 8%30-27 Kennedy · 8%29-28 Walsh · 8%30-25 Walsh · 8%

12 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.

Richard Walsh

1.55takedowns / 15 min
1.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.51 / 15m
3.88 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.61 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
33%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Steve Kennedy

2.51takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Richard Walsh vs Steve Kennedy.

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