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Events · UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 · Kamaru Usman vs Sean Strickland
From the tape · 8 Apr 2017

Kamaru Usman vs Sean Strickland

UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Result

Kamaru Usman beat Sean Strickland

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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
Blue corner SeanStricklandXtreme Couture · Anaheim, California
Welterweight3 rounds8 Apr 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Strickland.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
21-5
Record
31-7
29
Age
−3 yr26
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
76″
Reach
76″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+26
1/425% of wins
Finishes
+15%2/540% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Auchi, Edo
From
Anaheim, California
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
Kamaru Usman24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 24BODY12%3 of 4LEGS33%8 of 9
Sean Strickland5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 1
24 of 37
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:18
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstSal D'Amato10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Dave Tirelli10–8
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Usman
Kamaru Usman29 sig landed
HEAD48%14 of 45BODY41%12 of 17LEGS10%3 of 3
Sean Strickland5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 34BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
29 of 65
Sig.
strikes
5 of 34
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:25
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstSal D'Amato10–9Jeff Mullen10–8Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kamaru Usman37 sig landed
HEAD59%22 of 51BODY22%8 of 10LEGS19%7 of 8
Sean Strickland17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 53BODY6%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 69
Sig.
strikes
17 of 54
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:25
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstSal D'Amato10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Kamaru UsmanSean Strickland
Official totals — Kamaru Usman first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide30–26

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 — 16 scored, Kamaru Usman first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–25
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–26
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–26
Youngs FanSided.com30–26
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–26
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br30–26
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–26
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–26
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Usman · 36%30-25 Usman · 35%30-27 Usman · 10%30-24 Usman · 9%29-28 Strickland · 3%

100 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
0.66 / 15m
6.34 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.06 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
62%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Sean Strickland

0.66takedowns / 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 (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.

Kamaru Usmanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 70.9%
Sean Stricklandclose only
no opening line on recordclose 29.1%
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 70.9%, Sean Strickland 29.1%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Kamaru Usman-27470.9%
Sean Strickland16523229.1%
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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