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History · 2018 · UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 · Rafael Dos Anjos vs Colby Covington
From the tape · 9 Jun 2018

Rafael Dos Anjos vs Colby Covington

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

Colby Covington beat Rafael Dos Anjos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Interim Welterweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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 Rafael DosAnjosRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ColbyCovington“Chaos”MMA Masters · Springfield, Oregon
Interim Welterweight Title5 rounds9 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
32-17
Record
17-5
33
Age
−3 yr30
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1524
UFC bouts
9
7/1741% of wins
Finishes
+9%4/850% of wins
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
From
Springfield, Oregon
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 23BODY44%12 of 16LEGS11%3 of 3
Colby Covington17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 44BODY6%1 of 6LEGS41%7 of 7
27 of 42
Sig.
strikes
17 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
2:43
Distance 15Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstMichael Bell9–10Kelvin Caldwell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 26BODY45%9 of 11LEGS15%3 of 3
Colby Covington21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 50BODY0%0 of 4LEGS33%7 of 8
20 of 40
Sig.
strikes
21 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
3:09
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstMichael Bell10–9Kelvin Caldwell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 32BODY32%7 of 9LEGS14%3 of 3
Colby Covington29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 50BODY24%7 of 11LEGS34%10 of 11
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
29 of 72
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
3:02
Distance 15Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Anjos firstMichael Bell9–10Kelvin Caldwell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 25BODY26%5 of 5LEGS21%4 of 4
Colby Covington12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 39BODY25%3 of 6LEGS25%3 of 4
19 of 34
Sig.
strikes
12 of 49
3 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:14
Control
0:53
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstMichael Bell10–9Kelvin Caldwell10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafael Dos Anjos17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 33BODY24%4 of 4LEGS6%1 of 1
Colby Covington20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 46BODY15%3 of 6LEGS20%4 of 4
17 of 38
Sig.
strikes
20 of 56
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:00
Control
2:49
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstMichael Bell9–10Kelvin Caldwell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Rafael Dos AnjosColby Covington
Official totals — Rafael Dos Anjos first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell47–48
Kelvin Caldwell47–48
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49

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 — 22 scored, Rafael Dos Anjos first · unofficial

Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com45–50
Chris Connor The Fight City46–49
Mike Straus MMAJA46–49
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com46–49
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com46–49
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com46–49
MM ABrasil.com.br46–49
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com47–48
Nolan King MMA- Today.com47–48
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com47–48
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com47–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com47–48
MM AJunkie.com47–48
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Matthew Wells FanSided.com47–48
Youngs FanSided.com47–48
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com47–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com47–48
John Pollock POST Wrestling47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Covington · 34%48-47 Covington · 31%48-47 dos Anjos · 21%50-45 Covington · 7%49-46 dos Anjos · 2%

668 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.

Rafael Dos Anjos

1.95takedowns / 15 min
1.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.64 / 15m
5.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.67 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
42%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Colby Covington

3.64takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Rafael Dos Anjos↓ −17.9pp
open 62.1%close 44.2%
Colby Covington↑ +17.9pp
open 37.9%close 55.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Dos Anjos opened at 62.1% and closed at 44.2% (−17.9pp), with Colby Covington 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
Rafael Dos Anjos-19011862.1%44.2%−17.9pp
Colby Covington150-13837.9%55.8%+17.9pp
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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