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Events · UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold · Rob Wilkinson vs Israel Adesanya
From the tape · 10 Feb 2018

Rob Wilkinson vs Israel Adesanya

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

Israel Adesanya beat Rob Wilkinson

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:37
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Steve Perceval

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.

RW
Red corner RobWilkinson“Razor”Hybrid Training Centre · Hobart, Tasmania
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IsraelAdesanya“The Last Stylebender”City Kickboxing · Lagos
Middleweight3 rounds10 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Averages 4.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Adesanya.
  • Carries 76 points more takedown defence than Wilkinson.
11-2
Record
24-6
−3 yr25
Age
28
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
80″
Reach
80″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Hybrid Training Centre
Gym
City Kickboxing
Hobart, Tasmania
From
Lagos
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rob Wilkinson17 sig landed
HEAD12%2 of 8BODY29%5 of 7LEGS59%10 of 12
Israel Adesanya10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 10BODY30%3 of 3LEGS20%2 of 3
17 of 27
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
2 of 10
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:22
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 13Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 23:37 of action⚡ 1 KD AdesanyaEnded 3:37
Rob Wilkinson5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 14BODY0%0 of 3LEGS20%1 of 2
Israel Adesanya42 sig landed
HEAD71%30 of 46BODY24%10 of 10LEGS5%2 of 3
5 of 19
Sig.
strikes
42 of 59
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:45
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 21Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Israel Adesanya

Round
2
Clock
3:37
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Steve Perceval.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Rob Wilkinson

4.47takedowns / 15 min
4.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.05 / 15m
17.88 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.56 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
9%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Israel Adesanya

0.05takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Rob Wilkinson↓ −2.7pp
open 27.2%close 24.5%
Israel Adesanya↑ +2.7pp
open 72.8%close 75.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rob Wilkinson opened at 27.2% and closed at 24.5% (−2.7pp), with Israel Adesanya 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
Rob Wilkinson25029527.2%24.5%−2.7pp
Israel Adesanya-325-35772.8%75.5%+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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