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Events · UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov · Jimi Manuwa vs Jan Blachowicz
From the tape · 17 Mar 2018

Jimi Manuwa vs Jan Blachowicz

UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Jan Blachowicz beat Jimi Manuwa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

JM
Red corner JimiManuwa“Poster Boy”Morden
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JanBlachowiczWCA Fight Team · Cieszyn
Light Heavyweight3 rounds17 Mar 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
17-6
Record
29-12-2
38
Age
−3 yr35
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
+1″79″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+19
UFC bouts
8
+33%5/683% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Morden
From
Cieszyn
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Blachowicz
Jimi Manuwa8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 24BODY62%5 of 7LEGS25%2 of 2
Jan Blachowicz27 sig landed
HEAD93%25 of 61BODY4%1 of 3LEGS4%1 of 1
8 of 33
Sig.
strikes
27 of 65
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:02
Control
1:04
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Manuwa firstHoward Hughes9–10David Lethaby9–10Maciej Motylewski9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jimi Manuwa16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 29BODY44%7 of 9LEGS6%1 of 3
Jan Blachowicz28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 49BODY11%3 of 4LEGS7%2 of 2
16 of 41
Sig.
strikes
28 of 55
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
1:21
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Manuwa firstHoward Hughes10–9David Lethaby9–10Maciej Motylewski10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jimi Manuwa13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 26BODY38%5 of 7LEGS8%1 of 3
Jan Blachowicz42 sig landed
HEAD79%33 of 61BODY17%7 of 8LEGS5%2 of 2
13 of 36
Sig.
strikes
42 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:27
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Manuwa firstHoward Hughes9–10David Lethaby9–10Maciej Motylewski9–10

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 · Leon Roberts
Jimi ManuwaJan Blachowicz
Official totals — Jimi Manuwa first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Maciej Motylewski28–29

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 — 15 scored, Jimi Manuwa first · unofficial

Josh Stillman Sherdog.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Blachowicz · 49%30-27 Blachowicz · 25%29-27 Blachowicz · 18%30-26 Blachowicz · 5%30-28 Blachowicz · 2%

81 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.

Jimi Manuwa

0.53takedowns / 15 min
0.53 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.98 / 15m
2.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.04 / 15m
18%
ACCURACY
48%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jan Blachowicz

0.98takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Jimi Manuwa↓ −4.8pp
open 63.8%close 59.0%
Jan Blachowicz↑ +4.8pp
open 36.2%close 41.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jimi Manuwa opened at 63.8% and closed at 59.0% (−4.8pp), with Jan Blachowicz 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
Jimi Manuwa-210-15663.8%59.0%−4.8pp
Jan Blachowicz16013636.2%41.0%+4.8pp
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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