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Events · UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 · Curtis Millender vs Belal Muhammad
From the tape · 13 Apr 2019

Curtis Millender vs Belal Muhammad

UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Belal Muhammad beat Curtis Millender

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · 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.

CM
Red corner CurtisMillender“Curtious”CSW · San Bernardino, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BelalMuhammad“Remember the Name”Roufusport · Chicago, Illinois
Welterweight3 rounds13 Apr 2019
The story going in
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Millender.
  • Carries 33 points more takedown defence than Millender.
17-5
Record
24-6
31
Age
−1 yr30
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+48
+13%1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/520% of wins
CSW
Gym
Roufusport
San Bernardino, California
From
Chicago, Illinois
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Curtis Millender24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 29BODY21%5 of 8LEGS42%10 of 10
Belal Muhammad19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 32BODY16%3 of 5LEGS21%4 of 4
24 of 47
Sig.
strikes
19 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
1:21
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Millender firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Curtis Millender15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 18BODY7%1 of 3LEGS53%8 of 8
Belal Muhammad14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 32BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 29
Sig.
strikes
14 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:06
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Millender firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Curtis Millender9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 14BODY11%1 of 1LEGS44%4 of 5
Belal Muhammad14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 32BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
14 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:02
Control
3:50
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Millender firstMichael Bell8–10Derek Cleary8–10Sal D'Amato8–10

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
Curtis MillenderBelal Muhammad
Official totals — Curtis Millender first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide26–30

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 — 16 scored, Curtis Millender first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com26–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling26–30
MM ABrasil.com.br26–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno26–30
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com27–30
Adam Martin Sherdog.com27–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com27–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Muhammad · 36%29-28 Muhammad · 32%30-26 Muhammad · 16%30-27 Muhammad · 8%29-25 Muhammad · 4%

25 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.

Curtis Millender

0.43takedowns / 15 min
0.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.14 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
36%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Belal Muhammad

2.14takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Curtis Millender↓ −18.0pp
open 59.9%close 42.0%
Belal Muhammad↑ +18.0pp
open 40.1%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Curtis Millender opened at 59.9% and closed at 42.0% (−18.0pp), with Belal Muhammad 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
Curtis Millender-17513059.9%42.0%−18.0pp
Belal Muhammad135-15140.1%58.0%+18.0pp
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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