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Events · UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold · Mark Hunt vs Curtis Blaydes
From the tape · 10 Feb 2018

Mark Hunt vs Curtis Blaydes

UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold · Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Result

Curtis Blaydes beat Mark Hunt

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · John Sharp

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.

MH
Red corner MarkHunt“Super Samoan”South Auckland, Auckland
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CurtisBlaydes“Razor”Elevation Fight Team · Naperville, Illinois
Heavyweight3 rounds10 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Blaydes.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
13-14-1
Record
19-6
43
Age
−17 yr26
5' 10"
Height
+6″6' 4"
72″
Reach
+8″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1015
UFC bouts
5
+21%7/888% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
South Auckland, Auckland
From
Naperville, Illinois
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Hunt
Mark Hunt11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 20BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 1
Curtis Blaydes9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 32BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 2
11 of 21
Sig.
strikes
9 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:01
Control
2:16
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 25:00 of action
Mark Hunt2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Curtis Blaydes16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 26BODY31%5 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
2 of 9
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:01
Control
2:37
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 11
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mark Hunt1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Curtis Blaydes31 sig landed
HEAD97%30 of 37BODY0%0 landedLEGS3%1 of 1
1 of 2
Sig.
strikes
31 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
6 of 6
0:05
Control
4:42
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 30
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Mark Hunt

0.51takedowns / 15 min
0.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.12 / 15m
0.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.89 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
47%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Curtis Blaydes

5.12takedowns / 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.

Mark Hunt↓ −13.5pp
open 50.0%close 36.5%
Curtis Blaydes↑ +13.5pp
open 50.0%close 63.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mark Hunt opened at 50.0% and closed at 36.5% (−13.5pp), with Curtis Blaydes 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
Mark Hunt-12016550.0%36.5%−13.5pp
Curtis Blaydes-120-19050.0%63.5%+13.5pp
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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