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History · 2016 · Warlley Alves vs Kamaru Usman
From the tape · 19 Nov 2016

Warlley Alves vs Kamaru Usman

Result

Kamaru Usman beat Warlley Alves

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Vitor Ribeiro

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 WarlleyAlvesRizzo RVT · Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KamaruUsman“The Nigerian Nightmare”Kill Cliff FC · Auchi, Edo
Welterweight3 rounds19 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 27 points more takedown defence than Alves.
15-8
Record
21-5
−4 yr25
Age
29
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
72″
Reach
+4″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+25
UFC bouts
3
+42%3/475% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Rizzo RVT
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
From
Auchi, Edo
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
Warlley Alves14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 30BODY21%3 of 4LEGS21%3 of 4
Kamaru Usman20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 42BODY20%4 of 8LEGS5%1 of 1
14 of 38
Sig.
strikes
20 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstFabio Alves9–10Guilherme Bravo10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Warlley Alves10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 17BODY60%6 of 7LEGS10%1 of 1
Kamaru Usman21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 36BODY10%2 of 5LEGS5%1 of 2
10 of 25
Sig.
strikes
21 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alves firstFabio Alves9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Warlley Alves1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 8BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
Kamaru Usman30 sig landed
HEAD83%25 of 49BODY17%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 10
Sig.
strikes
30 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:41
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 9
Judges · this round · Alves firstFabio Alves8–10Guilherme Bravo8–10Eric Colón9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Vitor Ribeiro
Warlley AlvesKamaru Usman
Official totals — Warlley Alves first
JudgeTotal
Fabio Alves2.3 avg spread · 39% wide26–30
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide27–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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, Warlley Alves first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com26–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com26–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
MM AMania.com26–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
MM AForum.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Usman · 40%29-28 Usman · 23%30-27 Usman · 17%29-27 Usman · 14%30-25 Usman · 3%

35 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.

Warlley Alves

1.22takedowns / 15 min
1.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.79 / 15m
2.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.34 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
44%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Kamaru Usman

2.79takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Warlley Alvesclose only
no opening line on recordclose 35.0%
Kamaru Usmanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 65.0%
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: Warlley Alves 35.0%, Kamaru Usman 65.0%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Warlley Alves17517535.0%
Kamaru Usman-20765.0%
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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