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History · 2018 · UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 · Andrei Arlovski vs Tai Tuivasa
From the tape · 9 Jun 2018

Andrei Arlovski vs Tai Tuivasa

UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Tai Tuivasa beat Andrei Arlovski

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Robert Madrigal

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.

AA
Red corner AndreiArlovski“The Pitbull”American Top Team · Minsk
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TaiTuivasa“Bam Bam”Lions High Performance Centre · Sydney, New South Wales
Heavyweight3 rounds9 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 16 UFC wins.
34-24
Record
15-10
39
Age
−14 yr25
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+2325
UFC bouts
2
11/1669% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Lions High Performance Centre
Minsk
From
Sydney, New South Wales
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 Tuivasa
Andrei Arlovski13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 20BODY15%2 of 3LEGS31%4 of 5
Tai Tuivasa17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 26BODY18%3 of 3LEGS18%3 of 3
13 of 28
Sig.
strikes
17 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
1:20
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Arlovski firstChris Lee10–9Brandon Mason9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Andrei Arlovski19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 35BODY5%1 of 2LEGS32%6 of 8
Tai Tuivasa15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 36BODY27%4 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
19 of 45
Sig.
strikes
15 of 42
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Arlovski firstChris Lee9–10Brandon Mason9–10Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Andrei Arlovski19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 42BODY21%4 of 5LEGS11%2 of 5
Tai Tuivasa22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 36BODY23%5 of 7LEGS14%3 of 3
19 of 52
Sig.
strikes
22 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Arlovski firstChris Lee9–10Brandon Mason10–9Brian Puccillo9–10

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 · Robert Madrigal
Andrei ArlovskiTai Tuivasa
Official totals — Andrei Arlovski first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Brandon Mason28–29
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% 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 — 23 scored, Andrei Arlovski first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Nolan King MMA- Today.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Tuivasa · 43%29-28 Arlovski · 42%30-27 Arlovski · 5%30-27 Tuivasa · 5%

190 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.

Andrei Arlovski

0.37takedowns / 15 min
0.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
35%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Tai Tuivasa

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Andrei Arlovski→ no move
open 32.6%close 32.4%
Tai Tuivasa→ no move
open 67.4%close 67.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Andrei Arlovski opened at 32.6% and closed at 32.4% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Andrei Arlovski18519732.6%32.4%−0.2pp
Tai Tuivasa-265-23567.4%67.6%+0.2pp
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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