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History · 2015 · UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 · Kamaru Usman vs Leon Edwards
From the tape · 19 Dec 2015

Kamaru Usman vs Leon Edwards

UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 · Orlando, Florida, USA
Result

Kamaru Usman beat Leon Edwards

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 KamaruUsman“The Nigerian Nightmare”Kill Cliff FC · Auchi, Edo
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LeonEdwards“Rocky”Team Renegade · Erdington, West Midlands
Welterweight3 rounds19 Dec 2015
The story going in
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Edwards.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
21-5
Record
22-6
28
Age
−4 yr24
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
+23
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Team Renegade
Auchi, Edo
From
Erdington, West Midlands
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
Kamaru Usman12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 14BODY42%5 of 7LEGS0%0 of 1
Leon Edwards10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 17BODY20%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 22
Sig.
strikes
10 of 20
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:40
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Usman firstDon Balas9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kamaru Usman13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 17BODY46%6 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
Leon Edwards14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 24BODY21%3 of 3LEGS21%3 of 3
13 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 30
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:46
Control
0:40
Distance 7Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstDon Balas10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kamaru Usman23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 24BODY4%1 of 2LEGS30%7 of 8
Leon Edwards2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 6BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 34
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:20
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 23
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstDon Balas10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Kamaru UsmanLeon Edwards
Official totals — Kamaru Usman first
JudgeTotal
Don Balas29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Barry Luxenberg30–27

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 — 14 scored, Kamaru Usman first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–27
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Usman · 49%30-27 Usman · 20%29-28 Edwards · 15%29-27 Usman · 4%

220 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.

Kamaru Usman

2.79takedowns / 15 min
2.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.25 / 15m
6.34 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.38 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
37%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Leon Edwards

1.25takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Kamaru Usmanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 67.3%
Leon Edwardsclose only
no opening line on recordclose 32.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Kamaru Usman 67.3%, Leon Edwards 32.7%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Kamaru Usman-23267.3%
Leon Edwards10019532.7%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Kamaru Usman, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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