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Events · UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2 · Chad Mendes vs Alexander Volkanovski
From the tape · 29 Dec 2018

Chad Mendes vs Alexander Volkanovski

UFC 232: Jones vs. Gustafsson 2 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Chad Mendes

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:14
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

CM
Red corner ChadMendes“Money”Team Alpha Male · Hanford, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
Featherweight3 rounds29 Dec 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Volkanovski.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
18-5
Record
28-4
33
Age
−3 yr30
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
66″
Reach
+5″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
+27%6/967% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Hanford, California
From
Windang, New South Wales
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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
Chad Mendes15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 17BODY20%3 of 4LEGS33%5 of 6
Alexander Volkanovski16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 35BODY25%4 of 8LEGS31%5 of 10
15 of 27
Sig.
strikes
16 of 53
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:09
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 24:14 of action⚡ 1 KD Mendes⚡ 1 KD VolkanovskiEnded 4:14
Chad Mendes13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 20BODY23%3 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
Alexander Volkanovski38 sig landed
HEAD76%29 of 56BODY16%6 of 11LEGS8%3 of 4
13 of 24
Sig.
strikes
38 of 71
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:08
1
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 5Ground 3

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

Alexander Volkanovski

Round
2
Clock
4:14
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: Mark Smith.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Chad Mendes

4.13takedowns / 15 min
4.13 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.63 / 15m
7.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.79 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
34%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Alexander Volkanovski

1.63takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Chad Mendes vs Alexander Volkanovski.

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