This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson · Arnold Allen vs Makwan Amirkhani
From the tape · 18 Mar 2017

Arnold Allen vs Makwan Amirkhani

UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Arnold Allen beat Makwan Amirkhani

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Neil Hall

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 ArnoldAllen“Almighty”Felixstowe, Suffolk
VSOn the tape
MA
Blue corner MakwanAmirkhani“Mr. Finland”SBG Ireland · Turku
Featherweight3 rounds18 Mar 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 38 points more takedown defence than Amirkhani.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
21-4
Record
17-9
−5 yr23
Age
28
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+13
1/250% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Felixstowe, Suffolk
From
Turku
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 action2 sub attempts
Arnold Allen8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 23BODY50%4 of 4LEGS0%0 of 2
Makwan Amirkhani6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 11BODY17%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 29
Sig.
strikes
6 of 13
1 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:58
Control
1:49
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Allen firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes9–10Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Arnold Allen10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 14BODY10%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Makwan Amirkhani3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 17
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:13
Control
2:24
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Allen firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes9–10Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Arnold Allen14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Makwan Amirkhani8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 24BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 28
Sig.
strikes
8 of 26
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 7
1:24
Control
1:22
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Allen firstMark Collett10–9Howard Hughes10–9Paul Sutherland10–9

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 · Neil Hall
Arnold AllenMakwan Amirkhani
Official totals — Arnold Allen first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% 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, Arnold Allen first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Youngs FanSided.com29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Allen · 47%29-28 Amirkhani · 24%30-27 Allen · 24%30-27 Amirkhani · 1%30-29 Amirkhani · 1%

75 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.

Arnold Allen

1.24takedowns / 15 min
1.24 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.96 / 15m
2.07 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.21 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
43%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Makwan Amirkhani

3.96takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Arnold Allen↑ +2.4pp
open 48.1%close 50.5%
Makwan Amirkhani↓ −2.4pp
open 51.9%close 49.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Arnold Allen opened at 48.1% and closed at 50.5% (+2.4pp), with Makwan Amirkhani 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
Arnold Allen-110-11248.1%50.5%+2.4pp
Makwan Amirkhani-130-10751.9%49.5%−2.4pp
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.
← Every fighter on the record