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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Ivanov · Junior Dos Santos vs Blagoy Ivanov
From the tape · 14 Jul 2018

Junior Dos Santos vs Blagoy Ivanov

UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Ivanov · Boise, Idaho, USA
Result

Junior Dos Santos beat Blagoy Ivanov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMainReferee · 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.

JS
Red corner Junior DosSantos“Cigano”Cacador, Santa Catarina
VSOn the tape
BI
Blue corner BlagoyIvanov“Baga”SK Absolute Bulgaria · Sofia
Heavyweight5 rounds14 Jul 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Ivanov.
21-9
Record
19-6
34
Age
−3 yr31
+5″6' 4"
Height
5' 11"
+4″77″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Cacador, Santa Catarina
From
Sofia
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
Junior Dos Santos8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 11BODY62%5 of 16LEGS12%1 of 1
Blagoy Ivanov5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 23BODY20%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 28
Sig.
strikes
5 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDave Hagen10–9Tim Turner10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Junior Dos Santos26 sig landed
HEAD62%16 of 30BODY35%9 of 17LEGS4%1 of 1
Blagoy Ivanov6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 35BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
26 of 48
Sig.
strikes
6 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDave Hagen10–9Tim Turner10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Junior Dos Santos19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 38BODY16%3 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Blagoy Ivanov8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 40BODY25%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 48
Sig.
strikes
8 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDave Hagen10–9Tim Turner10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Junior Dos Santos20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 43BODY40%8 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
Blagoy Ivanov15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 57BODY13%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 57
Sig.
strikes
15 of 59
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDave Hagen10–9Tim Turner10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Junior Dos Santos37 sig landed
HEAD54%20 of 48BODY43%16 of 18LEGS3%1 of 1
Blagoy Ivanov17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 58BODY18%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 67
Sig.
strikes
17 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDave Hagen10–9Tim Turner10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Junior Dos SantosBlagoy Ivanov
Official totals — Junior Dos Santos first
JudgeTotal
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide50–45
Tim Turner50–45
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide50–45

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 — 1 scored, Junior Dos Santos first · unofficial

Santos Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 dos Santos · 59%49-46 dos Santos · 18%48-47 dos Santos · 9%50-46 dos Santos · 9%

44 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.

Junior Dos Santos

0.30takedowns / 15 min
0.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.69 / 15m
0.60 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.72 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
40%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Blagoy Ivanov

0.69takedowns / 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.

Junior Dos Santos↑ +13.5pp
open 50.0%close 63.5%
Blagoy Ivanov↓ −13.5pp
open 50.0%close 36.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Junior Dos Santos opened at 50.0% and closed at 63.5% (+13.5pp), with Blagoy Ivanov 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
Junior Dos Santos-120-19050.0%63.5%+13.5pp
Blagoy Ivanov-12016550.0%36.5%−13.5pp
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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