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History · 2016 · UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko · Kamaru Usman vs Alexander Yakovlev
From the tape · 23 Jul 2016

Kamaru Usman vs Alexander Yakovlev

UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Kamaru Usman beat Alexander Yakovlev

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

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
AY
Blue corner AlexanderYakovlev“Russian Thunder”K Dojo Warrior Tribe · St. Petersburg
Welterweight3 rounds23 Jul 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 2.4 more significant strikes a minute than Yakovlev.
21-5
Record
24-10-1
−3 yr29
Age
32
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+24
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
K Dojo Warrior Tribe
Auchi, Edo
From
St. Petersburg
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Kamaru Usman10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%4 of 4
Alexander Yakovlev1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 13
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:45
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Kamaru Usman17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 19BODY47%8 of 12LEGS6%1 of 2
Alexander Yakovlev7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 3BODY71%5 of 6LEGS14%1 of 1
17 of 33
Sig.
strikes
7 of 10
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:41
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kamaru Usman14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 18BODY14%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Alexander Yakovlev0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

14 of 21
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:36
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Kamaru Usman first
JudgeTotal
Gabriel Sabaitis30–25
Brandon Mason30–25
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide30–25

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 18 scored, Kamaru Usman first · unofficial

Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–23
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–24
John Pollock Fight Network30–24
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–24
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–24
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–24
MM AMania.com30–25
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–25
MM AJunkie.com30–25
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–25
MM AForum.com.br30–25
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–25
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–25
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br30–25
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com30–25
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–25
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–26

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Usman · 26%30-24 Usman · 26%30-23 Usman · 22%30-26 Usman · 11%30-22 Usman · 9%

46 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
1.66 / 15m
6.34 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.74 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
35%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Alexander Yakovlev

1.66takedowns / 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 70.7%
Alexander Yakovlevclose only
no opening line on recordclose 29.3%
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 70.7%, Alexander Yakovlev 29.3%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Kamaru Usman-27370.7%
Alexander Yakovlev17522929.3%
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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