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Events · UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith · Tyron Woodley vs Kamaru Usman
From the tape · 2 Mar 2019

Tyron Woodley vs Kamaru Usman

UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Kamaru Usman beat Tyron Woodley

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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.

TW
Red corner TyronWoodley“The Chosen One”American Top Team Evolution · St. Louis, Missouri
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KamaruUsman“The Nigerian Nightmare”Kill Cliff FC · Auchi, Edo
Welterweight Title5 rounds2 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 9-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 9 UFC wins.
19-7-1
Record
21-5
36
Age
−5 yr31
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
74″
Reach
+2″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+312
UFC bouts
9
+44%6/967% of wins
Finishes
2/922% of wins
American Top Team Evolution
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
St. Louis, Missouri
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 — 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
Tyron Woodley8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 5BODY75%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Kamaru Usman22 sig landed
HEAD23%5 of 14BODY73%16 of 17LEGS5%1 of 1
8 of 11
Sig.
strikes
22 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
2:53
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 16Ground 2
Judges · this round · Woodley firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tyron Woodley1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Kamaru Usman21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 23BODY24%5 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
21 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:23
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 7Ground 11
Judges · this round · Woodley firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Tyron Woodley14 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 5BODY79%11 of 12LEGS14%2 of 2
Kamaru Usman45 sig landed
HEAD4%2 of 15BODY96%43 of 44LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 19
Sig.
strikes
45 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:51
Distance 2Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 45Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodley firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Tyron Woodley10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 14BODY10%1 of 1LEGS10%1 of 1
Kamaru Usman38 sig landed
HEAD74%28 of 47BODY24%9 of 10LEGS3%1 of 1
10 of 16
Sig.
strikes
38 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
3:26
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 10Ground 9
Judges · this round · Woodley firstMichael Bell8–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen8–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tyron Woodley1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kamaru Usman15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 5BODY67%10 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 2
Sig.
strikes
15 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:40
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 14
Judges · this round · Woodley firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Tyron WoodleyKamaru Usman
Official totals — Tyron Woodley first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell44–50
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide45–50
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide44–50

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 — 26 scored, Tyron Woodley first · unofficial

Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com39–50
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com41–50
Mike Straus MMAJA42–50
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com42–50
John Pollock POST Wrestling42–50
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com42–50
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com42–50
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com42–50
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com42–50
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com42–50
MM AJunkie.com42–50
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com42–50
Matthew Wells FanSided.com43–50
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com43–50
Adam Martin Sherdog.com43–50
Keith Shillan FanSided.com43–50
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com43–50
Sheehan SevereMMA.com43–50
Nolan King FloCombat43–50
Steve Duncan mma.uno43–50
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily44–50
Phil Murphy ESPN44–50
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com44–50
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com44–50
MM AMania.com44–50
MM ABrasil.com.br44–50

Fan vote · unofficial

50-43 Usman · 29%50-42 Usman · 27%50-44 Usman · 12%50-41 Usman · 9%50-40 Usman · 7%

459 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.

Tyron Woodley

1.06takedowns / 15 min
1.06 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.79 / 15m
2.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.34 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
44%
0.40 / 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.

Tyron Woodleyclose only
no opening line on recordclose 63.8%
Kamaru Usmanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 36.2%
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: Tyron Woodley 63.8%, Kamaru Usman 36.2%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Tyron Woodley-145-19563.8%
Kamaru Usman16736.2%
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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