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History · 2015 · UFC on FOX: Dos Anjos vs. Cowboy 2 · Sarah Kaufman vs Valentina Shevchenko
From the tape · 19 Dec 2015

Sarah Kaufman vs Valentina Shevchenko

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

Valentina Shevchenko beat Sarah Kaufman

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightMain 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.

SK
Red corner SarahKaufmanZugec Ultimate Martial Arts · Victoria, British Columbia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ValentinaShevchenko“Bullet”Tiger Muay Thai · Bishkek
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds19 Dec 2015
The story going in
  • Lands 3.6 more significant strikes a minute than Shevchenko.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kaufman.
18-4
Record
26-4-1
30
Age
−3 yr27
5' 5"
Height
5' 5"
66″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Zugec Ultimate Martial Arts
Gym
Tiger Muay Thai
Victoria, British Columbia
From
Bishkek
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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
Sarah Kaufman8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 8BODY12%1 of 3LEGS50%4 of 6
Valentina Shevchenko15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 11BODY33%5 of 6LEGS13%2 of 3
8 of 17
Sig.
strikes
15 of 20
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:06
Control
3:14
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 9Ground 1
Judges · this round · Kaufman firstDon Balas9–10Hector Gomez9–10Barry Luxenberg9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Sarah Kaufman10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 6BODY10%1 of 2LEGS70%7 of 7
Valentina Shevchenko12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 12BODY17%2 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
10 of 15
Sig.
strikes
12 of 15
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:19
Control
2:15
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 3
Judges · this round · Kaufman firstDon Balas9–10Hector Gomez9–10Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sarah Kaufman9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Valentina Shevchenko5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 6BODY20%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 12
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:27
Control
0:46
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kaufman firstDon Balas10–9Hector Gomez10–9Barry 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

Split Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Sarah KaufmanValentina Shevchenko
Official totals — Sarah Kaufman first
JudgeTotal
Don Balas28–29
Hector Gomez28–29
Barry Luxenberg29–28

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 — 15 scored, Sarah Kaufman first · unofficial

Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Shevchenko · 87%29-28 Kaufman · 11%30-27 Shevchenko · 2%

62 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.

Sarah Kaufman

0.38takedowns / 15 min
0.38 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.65 / 15m
0.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.34 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
61%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Valentina Shevchenko

2.65takedowns / 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.

Sarah Kaufman↓ −14.2pp
open 65.3%close 51.1%
Valentina Shevchenko↑ +14.2pp
open 34.7%close 48.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sarah Kaufman opened at 65.3% and closed at 51.1% (−14.2pp), with Valentina Shevchenko 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
Sarah Kaufman-230-11565.3%51.1%−14.2pp
Valentina Shevchenko170-10534.7%48.9%+14.2pp
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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