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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia · Tarec Saffiedine vs Rafael Dos Anjos
From the tape · 17 Jun 2017

Tarec Saffiedine vs Rafael Dos Anjos

UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia · Kallang, Singapore
Result

Rafael Dos Anjos beat Tarec Saffiedine

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Greg Kleynjans

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.

TS
Red corner TarecSaffiedine“Sponge”Tristar Gym · Brussels
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Rafael DosAnjosRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Welterweight3 rounds17 Jun 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Anjos.
  • Has finished 6 of 14 UFC wins.
16-7
Record
32-17
−2 yr30
Age
32
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
70″
Reach
70″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
5
UFC bouts
+1621
0/20% of wins
Finishes
6/1443% of wins
Brussels
From
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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 action1 sub attempt
Tarec Saffiedine15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 19BODY27%4 of 4LEGS13%2 of 2
Rafael Dos Anjos22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 30BODY64%14 of 18LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 25
Sig.
strikes
22 of 48
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:58
Control
1:04
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 2
Judges · this round · Saffiedine firstBarry Foley9–10Kon Papaioannou9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tarec Saffiedine21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 31BODY29%6 of 7LEGS24%5 of 5
Rafael Dos Anjos28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 33BODY43%12 of 17LEGS14%4 of 5
21 of 43
Sig.
strikes
28 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:18
Control
1:51
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 10Ground 3
Judges · this round · Saffiedine firstBarry Foley9–10Kon Papaioannou9–10Albert Shen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tarec Saffiedine24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 62BODY17%4 of 4LEGS21%5 of 5
Rafael Dos Anjos31 sig landed
HEAD48%15 of 36BODY35%11 of 14LEGS16%5 of 5
24 of 71
Sig.
strikes
31 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:37
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saffiedine firstBarry Foley9–10Kon Papaioannou9–10Albert Shen9–10

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 · Greg Kleynjans
Tarec SaffiedineRafael Dos Anjos
Official totals — Tarec Saffiedine first
JudgeTotal
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide27–30
Kon Papaioannou2.1 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% 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.

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 dos Anjos · 82%29-28 dos Anjos · 15%30-28 dos Anjos · 3%

34 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.

Tarec Saffiedine

0.52takedowns / 15 min
0.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.95 / 15m
1.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.57 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
35%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Rafael Dos Anjos

1.95takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Tarec Saffiedine↓ −1.8pp
open 37.2%close 35.5%
Rafael Dos Anjos↑ +1.8pp
open 62.8%close 64.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tarec Saffiedine opened at 37.2% and closed at 35.5% (−1.8pp), with Rafael Dos Anjos 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
Tarec Saffiedine15517237.2%35.5%−1.8pp
Rafael Dos Anjos-195-20262.8%64.5%+1.8pp
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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