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Events · UFC 215: Nunes vs Shevchenko 2 · Amanda Nunes vs Valentina Shevchenko
From the tape · 9 Sep 2017

Amanda Nunes vs Valentina Shevchenko

UFC 215: Nunes vs Shevchenko 2 · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Result

Amanda Nunes beat Valentina Shevchenko

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Women's Bantamweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · John McCarthy

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 AmandaNunes“The Lioness”Lioness Studio · Salvador, Bahia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ValentinaShevchenko“Bullet”Tiger Muay Thai · Bishkek
Women's Bantamweight Title5 rounds9 Sep 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
23-5
Record
26-4-1
29
Age
29
+3″5' 8"
Height
5' 5"
+3″69″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+48
UFC bouts
4
+52%6/786% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Lioness Studio
Gym
Tiger Muay Thai
Salvador, Bahia
From
Bishkek
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Amanda Nunes25 sig landed
HEAD16%4 of 13BODY12%3 of 6LEGS72%18 of 24
Valentina Shevchenko11 sig landed
HEAD9%1 of 19BODY18%2 of 2LEGS73%8 of 10
25 of 43
Sig.
strikes
11 of 31
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nunes firstSal D'Amato10–9David Therien10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Amanda Nunes16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 13BODY31%5 of 6LEGS44%7 of 10
Valentina Shevchenko12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 28BODY25%3 of 4LEGS25%3 of 5
16 of 29
Sig.
strikes
12 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nunes firstSal D'Amato9–10David Therien10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Amanda Nunes17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 19BODY12%2 of 6LEGS65%11 of 22
Valentina Shevchenko15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 31BODY7%1 of 1LEGS53%8 of 12
17 of 47
Sig.
strikes
15 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nunes firstSal D'Amato10–9David Therien9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Amanda Nunes24 sig landed
HEAD8%2 of 11BODY17%4 of 4LEGS75%18 of 27
Valentina Shevchenko20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 36BODY10%2 of 4LEGS40%8 of 10
24 of 42
Sig.
strikes
20 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nunes firstSal D'Amato9–10David Therien9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Amanda Nunes4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%2 of 6
Valentina Shevchenko14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 24BODY7%1 of 2LEGS43%6 of 6
4 of 15
Sig.
strikes
14 of 32
1 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:32
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Nunes firstSal D'Amato10–9David Therien10–9Tony Weeks9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Amanda NunesValentina Shevchenko
Official totals — Amanda Nunes first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide47–48

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 — 22 scored, Amanda Nunes first · unofficial

Craig Amos BleacherReport.com48–47
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com48–47
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com48–47
Youngs FanSided.com48–47
Steve Duncan mma.uno48–47
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com48–48
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com48–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com47–48
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com47–48
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com47–48
Matthew Wells FanSided.com47–48
Combat Press.com47–48
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com47–48
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com47–48
Phil Santos MMABrasil.com.br47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Shevchenko · 51%48-47 Nunes · 21%49-46 Shevchenko · 16%49-47 Shevchenko · 3%49-46 Nunes · 2%

1,520 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.

Amanda Nunes

2.73takedowns / 15 min
2.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.65 / 15m
5.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.34 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
61%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Valentina Shevchenko

2.65takedowns / 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

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.

Amanda Nunes↓ −3.7pp
open 46.9%close 43.2%
Valentina Shevchenko↑ +3.7pp
open 53.1%close 56.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Amanda Nunes opened at 46.9% and closed at 43.2% (−3.7pp), with Valentina Shevchenko 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
Amanda Nunes10012346.9%43.2%−3.7pp
Valentina Shevchenko-130-14353.1%56.8%+3.7pp
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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