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History · 2019 · UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 · Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya
From the tape · 13 Apr 2019

Kelvin Gastelum vs Israel Adesanya

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

Israel Adesanya beat Kelvin Gastelum

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Interim Middleweight 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.

Red corner KelvinGastelumFight Ready · Yuma, Arizona
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IsraelAdesanya“The Last Stylebender”City Kickboxing · Lagos
Interim Middleweight Title5 rounds13 Apr 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
21-11
Record
24-6
−2 yr27
Age
29
5' 9"
Height
+7″6' 4"
71″
Reach
+9″80″
Southpaw
Stance
Switch
+914
UFC bouts
5
+10%5/1050% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Fight Ready
Gym
City Kickboxing
Yuma, Arizona
From
Lagos
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
Kelvin Gastelum12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 28BODY25%3 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
Israel Adesanya10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 22BODY30%3 of 6LEGS30%3 of 4
12 of 33
Sig.
strikes
10 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstMichael Bell10–9Ken Coffey10–9Anthony Maness10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Adesanya
Kelvin Gastelum20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 42BODY10%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Israel Adesanya29 sig landed
HEAD55%16 of 48BODY21%6 of 7LEGS24%7 of 7
20 of 44
Sig.
strikes
29 of 62
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstMichael Bell9–10Ken Coffey9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Kelvin Gastelum12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 28BODY17%2 of 3LEGS25%3 of 4
Israel Adesanya16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 29BODY25%4 of 6LEGS31%5 of 6
12 of 35
Sig.
strikes
16 of 41
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:09
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstMichael Bell9–10Ken Coffey9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Kelvin Gastelum32 sig landed
HEAD75%24 of 60BODY12%4 of 5LEGS12%4 of 4
Israel Adesanya17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 38BODY12%2 of 3LEGS24%4 of 4
32 of 69
Sig.
strikes
17 of 45
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:28
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstMichael Bell10–9Ken Coffey10–9Anthony Maness10–9
Round 55:00 of action⚡ 3 KD Adesanya2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Kelvin Gastelum15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 33BODY7%1 of 2LEGS20%3 of 4
Israel Adesanya37 sig landed
HEAD86%32 of 49BODY3%1 of 1LEGS11%4 of 7
15 of 39
Sig.
strikes
37 of 57
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:44
Control
0:35
0
Knock-
downs
3
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstMichael Bell8–10Ken Coffey8–10Anthony Maness8–10

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
Kelvin GastelumIsrael Adesanya
Official totals — Kelvin Gastelum first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell46–48
Ken Coffey46–48
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide46–48

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 — 24 scored, Kelvin Gastelum first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com45–49
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com45–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com46–48
MM AMania.com46–48
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com46–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com46–48
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com46–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com46–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com46–48
John Pollock POST Wrestling46–48
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com46–48
Keith Shillan FanSided.com46–48
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com46–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–48
Combat Press.com46–48
Phil Murphy ESPN46–48
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com46–48
MM ABrasil.com.br47–48
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily47–48
Mike Straus MMAJA47–48
Adam Martin Sherdog.com47–48
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com47–48
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-46 Adesanya · 52%48-45 Adesanya · 16%48-47 Adesanya · 9%49-45 Adesanya · 3%

1,138 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.

Kelvin Gastelum

1.04takedowns / 15 min
1.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.05 / 15m
2.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.56 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
9%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Israel Adesanya

0.05takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Kelvin Gastelum↑ +4.8pp
open 33.8%close 38.6%
Israel Adesanya↓ −4.8pp
open 66.2%close 61.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kelvin Gastelum opened at 33.8% and closed at 38.6% (+4.8pp), with Israel Adesanya 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
Kelvin Gastelum18515133.8%38.6%+4.8pp
Israel Adesanya-220-17466.2%61.4%−4.8pp
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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