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Events · UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2 · Eddie Alvarez vs Dustin Poirier
From the tape · 28 Jul 2018

Eddie Alvarez vs Dustin Poirier

UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2 · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Result

Dustin Poirier beat Eddie Alvarez

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 5
Clock
4:05
LightweightMainReferee · 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.

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Red corner EddieAlvarezRicardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DustinPoirier“The Diamond”American Top Team · Carencro, Louisiana
Lightweight5 rounds28 Jul 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Poirier.
  • Has finished 10 of 15 UFC wins.
29-6
Record
30-10
34
Age
−5 yr29
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
7
UFC bouts
+1320
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+17%10/1567% of wins
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
American Top Team
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
From
Carencro, Louisiana
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Eddie Alvarez18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 29BODY50%9 of 12LEGS22%4 of 6
Dustin Poirier20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 53BODY5%1 of 2LEGS30%6 of 8
18 of 47
Sig.
strikes
20 of 63
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 24:05 of action⚡ 1 KD Poirier3 sub attemptsEnded 4:05
Eddie Alvarez8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 24BODY12%1 of 3LEGS25%2 of 2
Dustin Poirier34 sig landed
HEAD91%31 of 48BODY9%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 29
Sig.
strikes
34 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:27
Control
0:05
0
Knock-
downs
1
1
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 6Ground 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

Dustin Poirier

Round
2
Clock
4:05
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.

Eddie Alvarez

2.92takedowns / 15 min
2.92 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.15 / 15m
8.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.29 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
35%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Dustin Poirier

1.15takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Eddie Alvarez↓ −3.8pp
open 45.2%close 41.3%
Dustin Poirier↑ +3.8pp
open 54.8%close 58.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Eddie Alvarez opened at 45.2% and closed at 41.3% (−3.8pp), with Dustin Poirier 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
Eddie Alvarez10513445.2%41.3%−3.8pp
Dustin Poirier-145-15454.8%58.7%+3.8pp
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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