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History · 2018 · The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters Finale · Rafael Dos Anjos vs Kamaru Usman
From the tape · 30 Nov 2018

Rafael Dos Anjos vs Kamaru Usman

The Ultimate Fighter: Heavy Hitters Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Kamaru Usman beat Rafael Dos Anjos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · Yves Lavigne

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 KamaruUsman“The Nigerian Nightmare”Kill Cliff FC · Auchi, Edo
Welterweight5 rounds30 Nov 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
  • 25 UFC bouts deep — 17 more than Usman.
  • Has finished 2 of 8 UFC wins.
32-17
Record
21-5
34
Age
−3 yr31
5' 8"
Height
+4″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+6″76″
Southpaw
Stance
Switch
+1725
UFC bouts
8
+16%7/1741% of wins
Finishes
2/825% of wins
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
From
Auchi, Edo
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 15BODY23%3 of 3LEGS23%3 of 3
Kamaru Usman13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 22BODY38%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 21
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
3:32
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Rafael Dos Anjos16 sig landed
HEAD19%3 of 8BODY50%8 of 8LEGS31%5 of 6
Kamaru Usman17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 23BODY29%5 of 7LEGS12%2 of 2
16 of 22
Sig.
strikes
17 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:55
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 8Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 12Ground 2
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 31BODY25%5 of 5LEGS25%5 of 6
Kamaru Usman25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 37BODY24%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 42
Sig.
strikes
25 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
4 of 5
0:21
Control
2:56
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%2 of 2
Kamaru Usman41 sig landed
HEAD78%32 of 59BODY15%6 of 6LEGS7%3 of 3
6 of 19
Sig.
strikes
41 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:00
Control
3:31
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 21
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafael Dos Anjos7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 3BODY43%3 of 4LEGS14%1 of 1
Kamaru Usman34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 42BODY21%7 of 8LEGS3%1 of 1
7 of 8
Sig.
strikes
34 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
4:30
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 9Ground 18
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Rafael Dos Anjos first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide43–50
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide45–49
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide47–48

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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
2.79 / 15m
5.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.34 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
44%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Kamaru Usman

2.79takedowns / 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.

Rafael Dos Anjosclose only
no opening line on recordclose 26.7%
Kamaru Usmanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 73.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Rafael Dos Anjos 26.7%, Kamaru Usman 73.3%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Rafael Dos Anjos16526026.7%
Kamaru Usman-32473.3%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Kamaru Usman, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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