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Events · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje · Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori
From the tape · 14 Apr 2018

Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori

UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Israel Adesanya beat Marvin Vettori

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · 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.

Red corner IsraelAdesanya“The Last Stylebender”City Kickboxing · Lagos
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarvinVettori“The Italian Dream”American Top Team · Mezzocorona, Trentino
Middleweight3 rounds14 Apr 2018
24-6
Record
19-10-1
28
Age
−4 yr24
+4″6' 4"
Height
6' 0"
+6″80″
Reach
74″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
+34
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
American Top Team
Lagos
From
Mezzocorona, Trentino
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
Israel Adesanya24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 29BODY25%6 of 7LEGS38%9 of 11
Marvin Vettori18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 42BODY11%2 of 3LEGS50%9 of 13
24 of 47
Sig.
strikes
18 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:16
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Hayes10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Israel Adesanya23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 44BODY13%3 of 3LEGS26%6 of 8
Marvin Vettori15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 48BODY27%4 of 4LEGS33%5 of 6
23 of 55
Sig.
strikes
15 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:13
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Hayes10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Israel Adesanya10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 19BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Marvin Vettori13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 32BODY8%1 of 1LEGS38%5 of 5
10 of 21
Sig.
strikes
13 of 38
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
2:50
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Hayes9–10Chris Lee9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Israel AdesanyaMarvin Vettori
Official totals — Israel Adesanya first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Chris Hayes29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 17 scored, Israel Adesanya first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Josh Stillman Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Chris Connor The Fight City29–28
Nolan King MMA- Today.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Adesanya · 55%29-28 Vettori · 33%30-27 Adesanya · 4%30-27 Vettori · 2%

1,030 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.

Israel Adesanya

0.05takedowns / 15 min
0.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.41 / 15m
0.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.28 / 15m
9%
ACCURACY
43%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Marvin Vettori

1.41takedowns / 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.

Israel Adesanya↑ +1.3pp
open 66.9%close 68.2%
Marvin Vettori↓ −1.3pp
open 33.1%close 31.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Israel Adesanya opened at 66.9% and closed at 68.2% (+1.3pp), with Marvin Vettori 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
Israel Adesanya-260-24166.9%68.2%+1.3pp
Marvin Vettori18020333.1%31.8%−1.3pp
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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