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Events · UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker · Fabricio Werdum vs Alistair Overeem
From the tape · 8 Jul 2017

Fabricio Werdum vs Alistair Overeem

UFC 213: Romero vs. Whittaker · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Alistair Overeem beat Fabricio Werdum

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

FW
Red corner FabricioWerdum“Vai Cavalo”Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
VSOn the tape
AO
Blue corner AlistairOvereem“The Demolition Man”Elevation Fight Team · Amsterdam
Heavyweight3 rounds8 Jul 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 42 points more takedown defence than Werdum.
24-9-1
Record
47-19
39
Age
−2 yr37
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
77″
Reach
+3″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+112
UFC bouts
11
6/967% of wins
Finishes
+5%5/771% of wins
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
From
Amsterdam
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
Fabricio Werdum12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 16BODY8%1 of 5LEGS75%9 of 9
Alistair Overeem5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 8BODY20%1 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
12 of 30
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Werdum firstDerek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Fabricio Werdum13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 28BODY31%4 of 6LEGS23%3 of 5
Alistair Overeem10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 12BODY40%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 39
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:56
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Werdum firstDerek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD WerdumEnded 5:00
Fabricio Werdum24 sig landed
HEAD83%20 of 40BODY17%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Alistair Overeem6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
24 of 46
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:39
Control
0:14
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Werdum firstDerek Cleary10–8Dave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9

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

Majority Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Fabricio WerdumAlistair Overeem
Official totals — Fabricio Werdum first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 16 scored, Fabricio Werdum first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Youngs FanSided.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Pedro Carneiro MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Overeem · 32%29-28 Werdum · 21%29-27 Werdum · 10%

438 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.

Fabricio Werdum

1.75takedowns / 15 min
1.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.42 / 15m
5.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.58 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
55%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Alistair Overeem

1.42takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Fabricio Werdum↓ −0.6pp
open 44.2%close 43.6%
Alistair Overeem↑ +0.6pp
open 55.8%close 56.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Fabricio Werdum opened at 44.2% and closed at 43.6% (−0.6pp), with Alistair Overeem 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
Fabricio Werdum11012144.2%43.6%−0.6pp
Alistair Overeem-150-14155.8%56.4%+0.6pp
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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