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History · 2016 · UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic · Mauricio Rua vs Corey Anderson
From the tape · 14 May 2016

Mauricio Rua vs Corey Anderson

UFC 198: Werdum vs Miocic · Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
Result

Mauricio Rua beat Corey Anderson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

MR
Red corner MauricioRua“Shogun”Universidade da Luta · Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
CA
Blue corner CoreyAnderson“Overtime”The Kennel Fight Club · Rockton, Illinois
Light Heavyweight3 rounds14 May 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Anderson.
  • Averages 2.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Rua.
27-14-1
Record
14-5
34
Age
−8 yr26
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
76″
Reach
+3″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+915
UFC bouts
6
+66%6/786% of wins
Finishes
1/520% of wins
Universidade da Luta
Gym
The Kennel Fight Club
Curitiba, Parana
From
Rockton, Illinois
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⚡ 1 KD Rua
Mauricio Rua30 sig landed
HEAD60%18 of 42BODY3%1 of 1LEGS37%11 of 12
Corey Anderson30 sig landed
HEAD70%21 of 64BODY17%5 of 7LEGS13%4 of 4
30 of 55
Sig.
strikes
30 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:25
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rua firstHallison Pontes10–9Joseph Terrell10–9Otto Torriero10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Rua
Mauricio Rua14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 25BODY21%3 of 5LEGS29%4 of 4
Corey Anderson19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 39BODY16%3 of 4LEGS16%3 of 3
14 of 34
Sig.
strikes
19 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:06
Control
1:43
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rua firstHallison Pontes9–10Joseph Terrell10–9Otto Torriero10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mauricio Rua4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 8BODY25%1 of 1LEGS50%2 of 3
Corey Anderson6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 14BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
4 of 12
Sig.
strikes
6 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
3:33
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Rua firstHallison Pontes9–10Joseph Terrell9–10Otto Torriero9–10

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 · Mario Yamasaki
Mauricio RuaCorey Anderson
Official totals — Mauricio Rua first
JudgeTotal
Hallison Pontes2.0 avg spread · 40% wide28–29
Joseph Terrell2.1 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Otto Torriero29–28

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 — 21 scored, Mauricio Rua first · unofficial

Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com28–29
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Youngs TheMMACorner.com28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rua · 50%29-28 Anderson · 38%30-27 Anderson · 2%30-27 Rua · 1%

212 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.

Mauricio Rua

2.01takedowns / 15 min
2.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.89 / 15m
4.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.78 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
50%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Corey Anderson

4.89takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Mauricio Rua↑ +2.2pp
open 38.6%close 40.9%
Corey Anderson↓ −2.2pp
open 61.4%close 59.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mauricio Rua opened at 38.6% and closed at 40.9% (+2.2pp), with Corey Anderson 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
Mauricio Rua14513738.6%40.9%+2.2pp
Corey Anderson-185-15761.4%59.1%−2.2pp
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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