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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Kennedy Nzechukwu vs Paul Craig
From the tape · 30 Mar 2019

Kennedy Nzechukwu vs Paul Craig

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Paul Craig beat Kennedy Nzechukwu

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
4:20
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · 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.

Red corner KennedyNzechukwu“African Savage”Fortis MMA · Dallas, Texas
VSOn the tape
PC
Blue corner PaulCraig“Bearjew”Scottish Hit Squad · Coatbridge
Light Heavyweight3 rounds30 Mar 2019
14-7-1
Record
17-10-1
−5 yr26
Age
31
+2″6' 5"
Height
6' 3"
+7″83″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Fortis MMA
Gym
Scottish Hit Squad
Dallas, Texas
From
Coatbridge
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Kennedy Nzechukwu12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 15BODY17%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Paul Craig5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS80%4 of 4
12 of 17
Sig.
strikes
5 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 8
1:46
Control
1:13
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Kennedy Nzechukwu20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 31BODY20%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Paul Craig11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 18BODY64%7 of 10LEGS9%1 of 1
20 of 36
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:58
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 34:20 of action1 sub attemptEnded 4:20
Kennedy Nzechukwu8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 18BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Paul Craig9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 20BODY67%6 of 9LEGS11%1 of 1
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
9 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:38
Control
0:15
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0

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

Paul Craig

Round
3
Clock
4:20
Method
Submission

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: Keith Peterson.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Kennedy Nzechukwu

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.43 / 15m
1.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.94 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
18%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Paul Craig

1.43takedowns / 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.

Kennedy Nzechukwu↓ −1.6pp
open 64.4%close 62.8%
Paul Craig↑ +1.6pp
open 35.6%close 37.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kennedy Nzechukwu opened at 64.4% and closed at 62.8% (−1.6pp), with Paul Craig 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
Kennedy Nzechukwu-215-18564.4%62.8%−1.6pp
Paul Craig16516035.6%37.2%+1.6pp
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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