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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos · Robbie Lawler vs Rafael Dos Anjos
From the tape · 16 Dec 2017

Robbie Lawler vs Rafael Dos Anjos

UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Result

Rafael Dos Anjos beat Robbie Lawler

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · 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.

RL
Red corner RobbieLawler“Ruthless”Kill Cliff FC · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Rafael DosAnjosRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Welterweight5 rounds16 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 16 UFC wins.
30-16
Record
32-17
35
Age
−2 yr33
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+4″74″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
18
UFC bouts
+523
+2%6/1346% of wins
Finishes
7/1644% of wins
San Diego, California
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Robbie Lawler14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 28BODY57%8 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Dos Anjos19 sig landed
HEAD11%2 of 25BODY47%9 of 15LEGS42%8 of 9
14 of 40
Sig.
strikes
19 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:14
Control
0:34
Distance 7Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Rodgers9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Robbie Lawler34 sig landed
HEAD68%23 of 61BODY29%10 of 12LEGS3%1 of 1
Rafael Dos Anjos58 sig landed
HEAD67%39 of 73BODY22%13 of 16LEGS10%6 of 8
34 of 74
Sig.
strikes
58 of 97
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:43
Control
0:10
Distance 24Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 51Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Rodgers9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Robbie Lawler16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 12BODY75%12 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Dos Anjos19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 19BODY16%3 of 8LEGS5%1 of 1
16 of 26
Sig.
strikes
19 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:13
Control
2:12
Distance 1Clinch 15Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 10
Judges · this round · Lawler firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Rodgers9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Robbie Lawler11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 39BODY9%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Dos Anjos39 sig landed
HEAD62%24 of 46BODY26%10 of 11LEGS13%5 of 6
11 of 40
Sig.
strikes
39 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:14
Control
1:31
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 16Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Rodgers9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Robbie Lawler11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 31BODY9%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Dos Anjos37 sig landed
HEAD54%20 of 36BODY35%13 of 14LEGS11%4 of 4
11 of 32
Sig.
strikes
37 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
3:26
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 20Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Rodgers9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Robbie LawlerRafael Dos Anjos
Official totals — Robbie Lawler first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide45–50
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide45–50
Jason Rodgers2.1 avg spread · 50% wide45–50

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

50-45 dos Anjos · 68%50-44 dos Anjos · 11%49-46 dos Anjos · 5%50-45 Lawler · 3%50-43 dos Anjos · 2%

101 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.

Robbie Lawler

0.65takedowns / 15 min
0.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.95 / 15m
1.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.57 / 15m
64%
ACCURACY
35%
0.00 / 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.

Robbie Lawler↓ −11.0pp
open 57.5%close 46.5%
Rafael Dos Anjos↑ +11.0pp
open 42.5%close 53.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Robbie Lawler opened at 57.5% and closed at 46.5% (−11.0pp), 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
Robbie Lawler-16010657.5%46.5%−11.0pp
Rafael Dos Anjos120-12642.5%53.5%+11.0pp
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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