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Events · UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold · Yoel Romero vs Luke Rockhold
From the tape · 10 Feb 2018

Yoel Romero vs Luke Rockhold

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

Yoel Romero beat Luke Rockhold

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 5
Clock
1:48
MiddleweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

YR
Red corner YoelRomero“Soldier of God”American Top Team · Miami, Florida
VSOn the tape
LR
Blue corner LukeRockholdAmerican Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Middleweight5 rounds10 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Rockhold’s 6 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 13 points more takedown defence than Rockhold.
13-5
Record
16-6
40
Age
−7 yr33
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
73″
Reach
+4″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+19
UFC bouts
8
6/875% of wins
Finishes
+25%6/6100% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Miami, Florida
From
San Jose, California
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
Yoel Romero10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 15BODY10%1 of 4LEGS60%6 of 8
Luke Rockhold18 sig landed
HEAD17%3 of 21BODY22%4 of 7LEGS61%11 of 13
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
18 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Yoel Romero24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 30BODY29%7 of 11LEGS17%4 of 5
Luke Rockhold17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 40BODY35%6 of 8LEGS6%1 of 3
24 of 46
Sig.
strikes
17 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 13Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 31:48 of action⚡ 1 KD RomeroEnded 1:48
Yoel Romero11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 15BODY18%2 of 2LEGS18%2 of 2
Luke Rockhold10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 26BODY0%0 landedLEGS10%1 of 1
11 of 19
Sig.
strikes
10 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 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

Yoel Romero

Round
3
Clock
1:48
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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Yoel Romero

1.57takedowns / 15 min
1.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
5.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.41 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
29%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Luke Rockhold

0.70takedowns / 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.

Yoel Romero↓ −24.9pp
open 62.1%close 37.2%
Luke Rockhold↑ +24.9pp
open 37.9%close 62.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Yoel Romero opened at 62.1% and closed at 37.2% (−24.9pp), with Luke Rockhold 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
Yoel Romero-19016062.1%37.2%−24.9pp
Luke Rockhold150-18537.9%62.8%+24.9pp
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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