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Events · UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 · Holly Holm vs Megan Anderson
From the tape · 9 Jun 2018

Holly Holm vs Megan Anderson

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

Holly Holm beat Megan Anderson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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 HollyHolm“The Preacher's Daughter”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
MA
Blue corner MeganAndersonGlory MMA & Fitness · Gold Coast, Queensland
Women's Featherweight3 rounds9 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 18 points more striking defence than Anderson.
15-7
Record
11-5
36
Age
−8 yr28
5' 8"
Height
+4″6' 0"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Glory MMA & Fitness
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Gold Coast, Queensland
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
Holly Holm12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 7BODY42%5 of 5LEGS25%3 of 5
Megan Anderson15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 24BODY40%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 17
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:33
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holm firstMichael Bell10–9Kelvin Caldwell10–9Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Holly Holm18 sig landed
HEAD83%15 of 27BODY11%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Megan Anderson7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 14BODY43%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 31
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:39
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holm firstMichael Bell10–9Kelvin Caldwell10–8Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Holly Holm17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 13BODY29%5 of 6LEGS24%4 of 4
Megan Anderson4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 4BODY50%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 23
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:32
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holm firstMichael Bell10–8Kelvin Caldwell10–9Brian Puccillo10–9

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 · Kevin MacDonald
Holly HolmMegan Anderson
Official totals — Holly Holm first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–26
Kelvin Caldwell30–26
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide30–27

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 — 21 scored, Holly Holm first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling30–25
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–25
MM AJunkie.com30–25
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–26
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com30–26
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–26
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–26
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
Kendrick Johnson The Ring30–26
Phil Murphy ESPN30–26
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Chris Connor The Fight City30–27
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com30–27
Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com30–27
Nolan King MMA- Today.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Holm · 36%30-26 Holm · 29%30-25 Holm · 25%29-28 Holm · 6%30-24 Holm · 1%

69 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.

Holly Holm

0.87takedowns / 15 min
0.87 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.52 / 15m
2.90 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.08 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
25%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Megan Anderson

0.52takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Holly Holm↓ −1.3pp
open 59.9%close 58.7%
Megan Anderson↑ +1.3pp
open 40.1%close 41.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Holly Holm opened at 59.9% and closed at 58.7% (−1.3pp), with Megan Anderson 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
Holly Holm-175-15459.9%58.7%−1.3pp
Megan Anderson13513440.1%41.3%+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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