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History · 2018 · UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou · Stipe Miocic vs Francis Ngannou
From the tape · 20 Jan 2018

Stipe Miocic vs Francis Ngannou

UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Stipe Miocic beat Francis Ngannou

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

SM
Red corner StipeMiocicStrong Style Fight Team · Independence, Ohio
VSOn the tape
FN
Blue corner FrancisNgannou“The Predator”Xtreme Couture · Paris
Heavyweight Title5 rounds20 Jan 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Ngannou’s 6 UFC wins came inside the distance.
20-5
Record
17-3
35
Age
−4 yr31
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
80″
Reach
+3″83″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+713
UFC bouts
6
8/1173% of wins
Finishes
+27%6/6100% of wins
Strong Style Fight Team
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Independence, Ohio
From
Paris
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
Stipe Miocic16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 22BODY12%2 of 2LEGS6%1 of 1
Francis Ngannou15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 61BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 25
Sig.
strikes
15 of 62
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:57
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDouglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Stipe Miocic17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 13BODY24%4 of 5LEGS35%6 of 6
Francis Ngannou4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 23BODY50%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 24
Sig.
strikes
4 of 27
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:17
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDouglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Stipe Miocic12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%4 of 4
Francis Ngannou1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
12 of 16
Sig.
strikes
1 of 8
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:47
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDouglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Stipe Miocic18 sig landed
HEAD83%15 of 18BODY11%2 of 2LEGS6%1 of 1
Francis Ngannou0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

18 of 21
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:39
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDouglas Crosby10–8David Ginsberg10–8Chris Lee10–8
Round 55:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Stipe Miocic7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 2BODY14%1 of 2LEGS57%4 of 5
Francis Ngannou1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 11BODY100%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 9
Sig.
strikes
1 of 13
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:22
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miocic firstDouglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg10–9Chris 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Stipe MiocicFrancis Ngannou
Official totals — Stipe Miocic first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby50–44
David Ginsberg50–44
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide50–44

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 — 21 scored, Stipe Miocic first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–42
Nolan King MMA- Today.com50–43
John Pollock POST Wrestling50–43
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com50–43
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com50–44
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–44
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com50–44
Josh Nason Wrestling Observer50–44
MM AMania.com50–44
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com50–44
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com50–44
Josh Stillman Sherdog.com50–44
Dominik Durniat Extreme Sports Channel50–44
Steve Duncan mma.uno50–44
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com50–44
Youngs FanSided.com50–44
Phil Murphy ESPN50–44
Felipe Freitas MMABrasil.com.br50–44
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Kendrick Johnson The Ring50–45

Fan vote · unofficial

50-44 Miocic · 37%50-43 Miocic · 26%50-42 Miocic · 13%50-45 Miocic · 7%50-41 Miocic · 6%

469 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.

Stipe Miocic

1.74takedowns / 15 min
1.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.76 / 15m
5.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.23 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
62%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Francis Ngannou

0.76takedowns / 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.

Stipe Miocic↓ −2.7pp
open 41.4%close 38.7%
Francis Ngannou↑ +2.7pp
open 58.6%close 61.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stipe Miocic opened at 41.4% and closed at 38.7% (−2.7pp), with Francis Ngannou 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
Stipe Miocic13015041.4%38.7%−2.7pp
Francis Ngannou-160-17358.6%61.3%+2.7pp
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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