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Events · UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington · Amanda Nunes vs Raquel Pennington
From the tape · 12 May 2018

Amanda Nunes vs Raquel Pennington

UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Amanda Nunes beat Raquel Pennington

Method
KO/TKO
Round
5 of 5
Clock
2:36
Women's Bantamweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

Red corner AmandaNunes“The Lioness”Lioness Studio · Salvador, Bahia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RaquelPennington“Rocky”Altitude MMA · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Women's Bantamweight Title5 rounds12 May 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
23-5
Record
16-10
29
Age
29
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+2″69″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+19
UFC bouts
8
+42%6/875% of wins
Finishes
2/633% of wins
Lioness Studio
Gym
Altitude MMA
Salvador, Bahia
From
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Amanda Nunes33 sig landed
HEAD36%12 of 40BODY30%10 of 15LEGS33%11 of 19
Raquel Pennington19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 34BODY16%3 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
33 of 74
Sig.
strikes
19 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:00
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Amanda Nunes27 sig landed
HEAD59%16 of 45BODY30%8 of 9LEGS11%3 of 5
Raquel Pennington18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 40BODY28%5 of 7LEGS6%1 of 1
27 of 59
Sig.
strikes
18 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
1:17
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 1
Round 35:00 of action
Amanda Nunes18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 27BODY22%4 of 7LEGS22%4 of 6
Raquel Pennington12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 34BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
18 of 40
Sig.
strikes
12 of 36
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:45
Control
0:24
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 45:00 of action
Amanda Nunes27 sig landed
HEAD59%16 of 31BODY30%8 of 12LEGS11%3 of 5
Raquel Pennington8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 30BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 48
Sig.
strikes
8 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:20
Control
0:32
Distance 18Clinch 8Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 52:36 of actionEnded 2:36
Amanda Nunes19 sig landed
HEAD95%18 of 28BODY5%1 of 3LEGS0%0 of 2
Raquel Pennington7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 10BODY14%1 of 1LEGS29%2 of 2
19 of 33
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 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

Amanda Nunes

Round
5
Clock
2:36
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.

Amanda Nunes

2.73takedowns / 15 min
2.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.83 / 15m
5.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.07 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
27%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Raquel Pennington

0.83takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Bantamweight

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.

Amanda Nunes↑ +5.2pp
open 79.1%close 84.3%
Raquel Pennington↓ −5.2pp
open 20.9%close 15.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Amanda Nunes opened at 79.1% and closed at 84.3% (+5.2pp), with Raquel Pennington 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
Amanda Nunes-530-70079.1%84.3%+5.2pp
Raquel Pennington35051220.9%15.7%−5.2pp
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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