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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Iaquinta · Kevin Lee vs Al Iaquinta
From the tape · 15 Dec 2018

Kevin Lee vs Al Iaquinta

UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Iaquinta · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Result

Al Iaquinta beat Kevin Lee

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
LightweightMainReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

KL
Red corner KevinLee“The Motown Phenom”Tristar Gym · Grand Rapids, Michigan
VSOn the tape
AI
Blue corner AlIaquinta“Raging”Serra-Longo Fight Team · New York City, New York
Lightweight5 rounds15 Dec 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Iaquinta.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Lee.
18-8
Record
14-7-1
−5 yr26
Age
31
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
+7″77″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+213
UFC bouts
11
+10%6/1060% of wins
Finishes
4/850% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Grand Rapids, Michigan
From
New York City, New York
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
Kevin Lee23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 77BODY17%4 of 7LEGS9%2 of 2
Al Iaquinta20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 38BODY25%5 of 9LEGS15%3 of 4
23 of 86
Sig.
strikes
20 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Kevin Lee34 sig landed
HEAD85%29 of 62BODY9%3 of 5LEGS6%2 of 2
Al Iaquinta18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 29BODY22%4 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
34 of 69
Sig.
strikes
18 of 35
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:44
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Kevin Lee10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 29BODY30%3 of 4LEGS20%2 of 2
Al Iaquinta16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 23BODY19%3 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
10 of 35
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:29
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Kevin Lee17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 57BODY18%3 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Al Iaquinta24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 50BODY17%4 of 6LEGS17%4 of 4
17 of 61
Sig.
strikes
24 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kevin Lee18 sig landed
HEAD89%16 of 42BODY6%1 of 2LEGS6%1 of 1
Al Iaquinta33 sig landed
HEAD91%30 of 49BODY9%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 45
Sig.
strikes
33 of 53
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
0:13
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Brian Puccillo9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
Kevin LeeAl Iaquinta
Official totals — Kevin Lee first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide47–48
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide46–49
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide47–48

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 — 21 scored, Kevin Lee first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com45–49
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno47–48
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com47–48
Sherdog.com47–48
Mike Straus MMAJA47–48
Matthew Wells FanSided.com47–48
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com47–48
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com47–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com47–48
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com47–48
MM ABrasil.com.br47–48
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily47–48
Phil Murphy ESPN47–48
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com48–47
Nolan King FloCombat48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Iaquinta · 54%48-47 Lee · 17%49-46 Iaquinta · 13%48-46 Iaquinta · 4%49-45 Iaquinta · 4%

342 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.

Kevin Lee

3.18takedowns / 15 min
3.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.63 / 15m
7.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.50 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
18%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Al Iaquinta

0.63takedowns / 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.

Kevin Lee↑ +6.8pp
open 68.4%close 75.2%
Al Iaquinta↓ −6.8pp
open 31.6%close 24.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kevin Lee opened at 68.4% and closed at 75.2% (+6.8pp), with Al Iaquinta 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
Kevin Lee-275-36568.4%75.2%+6.8pp
Al Iaquinta19528731.6%24.8%−6.8pp
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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