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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt · Alexander Volkanovski vs Mizuto Hirota
From the tape · 10 Jun 2017

Alexander Volkanovski vs Mizuto Hirota

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt · Auckland, New Zealand
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Mizuto Hirota

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · John Sharp

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 AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MizutoHirota“Pugnus”Cave · Isahaya, Nagasaki
Featherweight3 rounds10 Jun 2017
28-4
Record
18-10-2
−8 yr28
Age
36
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
+4″71″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Windang, New South Wales
From
Isahaya, Nagasaki
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⚡ 1 KD Volkanovski
Alexander Volkanovski33 sig landed
HEAD70%23 of 42BODY6%2 of 4LEGS24%8 of 10
Mizuto Hirota16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 37BODY6%1 of 1LEGS19%3 of 3
33 of 56
Sig.
strikes
16 of 41
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:23
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 18
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstRitchie Gerard10–9Peter Hickmott10–9Mark Rodgers10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alexander Volkanovski28 sig landed
HEAD64%18 of 30BODY11%3 of 4LEGS25%7 of 11
Mizuto Hirota14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 46BODY7%1 of 3LEGS7%1 of 1
28 of 45
Sig.
strikes
14 of 50
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:39
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 5Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstRitchie Gerard10–9Peter Hickmott10–9Mark Rodgers10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alexander Volkanovski26 sig landed
HEAD54%14 of 25BODY15%4 of 5LEGS31%8 of 8
Mizuto Hirota16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 56BODY0%0 of 1LEGS6%1 of 1
26 of 38
Sig.
strikes
16 of 58
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:16
Control
0:21
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstRitchie Gerard10–9Peter Hickmott10–9Mark Rodgers10–9

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 · John Sharp
Alexander VolkanovskiMizuto Hirota
Official totals — Alexander Volkanovski first
JudgeTotal
Ritchie Gerard30–27
Peter Hickmott30–27
Mark Rodgers30–27

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 — 14 scored, Alexander Volkanovski first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–27
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Volkanovski · 55%30-26 Volkanovski · 30%29-27 Volkanovski · 5%30-25 Volkanovski · 5%30-29 Hirota · 5%

20 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 Volkanovski

1.63takedowns / 15 min
1.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.36 / 15m
4.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.72 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Mizuto Hirota

1.36takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Alexander Volkanovski vs Mizuto Hirota.

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