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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch · Justin Ledet vs Azunna Anyanwu
From the tape · 16 Sep 2017

Justin Ledet vs Azunna Anyanwu

UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Justin Ledet beat Azunna Anyanwu

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain 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.

JL
Red corner JustinLedet“El Blanco”Houston, Texas
VSOn the tape
AA
Blue corner AzunnaAnyanwu“Zulu”Renzo Gracie Philly · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Heavyweight3 rounds16 Sep 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 20 points more striking defence than Ledet.
  • Carries 42 points more takedown defence than Anyanwu.
9-4
Record
14-5
−8 yr28
Age
36
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Houston, Texas
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Justin Ledet13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Azunna Anyanwu7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 7BODY71%5 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 39
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ledet firstDave Brogan10–9Eric Colón9–10Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Justin Ledet13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 43BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Azunna Anyanwu13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 19BODY15%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 45
Sig.
strikes
13 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ledet firstDave Brogan10–9Eric Colón10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Justin Ledet10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 42BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Azunna Anyanwu17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 34BODY12%2 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 42
Sig.
strikes
17 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ledet firstDave Brogan9–10Eric Colón9–10Cardo Urso9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
Justin LedetAzunna Anyanwu
Official totals — Justin Ledet first
JudgeTotal
Dave Brogan29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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, Justin Ledet first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ledet · 48%29-28 Anyanwu · 30%30-27 Anyanwu · 10%30-27 Ledet · 5%

40 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.

Justin Ledet

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.65 / 15m
0.46 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.65 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
100%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Azunna Anyanwu

0.65takedowns / 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.

Justin Ledet↑ +7.9pp
open 71.8%close 79.7%
Azunna Anyanwu↓ −7.9pp
open 28.2%close 20.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Justin Ledet opened at 71.8% and closed at 79.7% (+7.9pp), with Azunna Anyanwu 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
Justin Ledet-315-47271.8%79.7%+7.9pp
Azunna Anyanwu23537528.2%20.3%−7.9pp
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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