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Events · UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett · Alexander Gustafsson vs Jan Blachowicz
From the tape · 3 Sep 2016

Alexander Gustafsson vs Jan Blachowicz

UFC Fight Night: Arlovski vs. Barnett · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Result

Alexander Gustafsson beat Jan Blachowicz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

AG
Red corner AlexanderGustafsson“The Mauler”Stockholm, Stockholm County
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JanBlachowiczWCA Fight Team · Cieszyn
Light Heavyweight3 rounds3 Sep 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 10 points more accurate striking than Gustafsson.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
18-8
Record
29-12-2
−4 yr29
Age
33
+3″6' 5"
Height
6' 2"
+1″79″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+812
UFC bouts
4
6/875% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Stockholm, Stockholm County
From
Cieszyn
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
Alexander Gustafsson19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 42BODY16%3 of 3LEGS11%2 of 3
Jan Blachowicz19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 42BODY26%5 of 9LEGS11%2 of 2
19 of 48
Sig.
strikes
19 of 53
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:22
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gustafsson firstHoward Hughes10–9Paul Sutherland10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alexander Gustafsson14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS7%1 of 1
Jan Blachowicz2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
14 of 25
Sig.
strikes
2 of 12
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:41
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Gustafsson firstHoward Hughes10–9Paul Sutherland10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alexander Gustafsson17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 26BODY0%0 landedLEGS6%1 of 1
Jan Blachowicz7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 19BODY43%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 27
Sig.
strikes
7 of 25
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:40
Control
0:00
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gustafsson firstHoward Hughes10–9Paul Sutherland10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Alexander GustafssonJan Blachowicz
Official totals — Alexander Gustafsson first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide30–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide30–27

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 — 17 scored, Alexander Gustafsson first · unofficial

Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com30–25
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–26
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–26
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–27
Youngs TheMMACorner.com29–28
MM AForum.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gustafsson · 39%30-26 Gustafsson · 23%29-28 Gustafsson · 14%30-25 Gustafsson · 8%30-28 Gustafsson · 4%

77 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.

Alexander Gustafsson

1.53takedowns / 15 min
1.53 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.98 / 15m
3.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.04 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
48%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jan Blachowicz

0.98takedowns / 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.

Alexander Gustafsson↑ +3.0pp
open 81.1%close 84.1%
Jan Blachowicz↓ −3.0pp
open 18.9%close 15.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexander Gustafsson opened at 81.1% and closed at 84.1% (+3.0pp), with Jan Blachowicz 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
Alexander Gustafsson-600-69281.1%84.1%+3.0pp
Jan Blachowicz40050518.9%15.9%−3.0pp
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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