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Events · UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 · Thiago Santos vs Kevin Holland
From the tape · 4 Aug 2018

Thiago Santos vs Kevin Holland

UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Thiago Santos beat Kevin Holland

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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.

TS
Red corner ThiagoSantos“Marreta”Team Marreta · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KevinHolland“Trailblazer”Phalanx MMA Academy · Fort Worth, Texas
Middleweight3 rounds4 Aug 2018
22-11
Record
29-15
34
Age
−9 yr25
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
76″
Reach
+5″81″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Team Marreta
Gym
Phalanx MMA Academy
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
From
Fort Worth, Texas
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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 action1 sub attempt
Thiago Santos30 sig landed
HEAD77%23 of 66BODY17%5 of 6LEGS7%2 of 2
Kevin Holland7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 14BODY0%0 of 2LEGS43%3 of 3
30 of 74
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:46
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 26
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Santos firstMichael Bell10–9Guilherme Bravo10–8Derek Cleary10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Thiago Santos14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 18BODY36%5 of 7LEGS21%3 of 3
Kevin Holland20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 20BODY25%5 of 6LEGS10%2 of 2
14 of 28
Sig.
strikes
20 of 28
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:05
Control
1:10
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 8
Judges · this round · Santos firstMichael Bell9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Derek Cleary9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Thiago Santos25 sig landed
HEAD84%21 of 47BODY16%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Kevin Holland4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 7BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 51
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:49
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Santos firstMichael Bell10–8Guilherme Bravo10–8Derek Cleary10–8

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 · Mike Beltran
Thiago SantosKevin Holland
Official totals — Thiago Santos first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–27
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide29–26
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–27

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 — 15 scored, Thiago Santos first · unofficial

Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com30–25
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–26
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–26
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Nolan King MMA- Today.com30–27
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–27
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Santos · 33%30-26 Santos · 29%29-28 Santos · 15%30-27 Santos · 10%30-25 Santos · 8%

52 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.

Thiago Santos

0.88takedowns / 15 min
0.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.79 / 15m
2.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.19 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
36%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Kevin Holland

0.79takedowns / 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.

Thiago Santos↑ +4.6pp
open 69.8%close 74.4%
Kevin Holland↓ −4.6pp
open 30.2%close 25.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Santos opened at 69.8% and closed at 74.4% (+4.6pp), with Kevin Holland 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
Thiago Santos-275-33769.8%74.4%+4.6pp
Kevin Holland21527730.2%25.6%−4.6pp
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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