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Events · UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade · Jose Aldo vs Alexander Volkanovski
From the tape · 11 May 2019

Jose Aldo vs Alexander Volkanovski

UFC 237: Namajunas vs. Andrade · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Jose Aldo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain 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.

Red corner JoseAldoNova Uniao · Manaus, Amazonas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
Featherweight3 rounds11 May 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
32-10
Record
28-4
32
Age
−2 yr30
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+713
UFC bouts
6
4/1040% of wins
Finishes
+10%3/650% of wins
Manaus, Amazonas
From
Windang, New South Wales
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
Jose Aldo8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 15BODY38%3 of 5LEGS25%2 of 3
Alexander Volkanovski20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 21BODY15%3 of 10LEGS65%13 of 18
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
20 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:30
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jose Aldo12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 27BODY17%2 of 5LEGS8%1 of 1
Alexander Volkanovski39 sig landed
HEAD26%10 of 34BODY21%8 of 8LEGS54%21 of 24
12 of 33
Sig.
strikes
39 of 66
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
1:08
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jose Aldo9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 21BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Alexander Volkanovski36 sig landed
HEAD39%14 of 38BODY17%6 of 6LEGS44%16 of 17
9 of 23
Sig.
strikes
36 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
2:48
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 18Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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
Jose AldoAlexander Volkanovski
Official totals — Jose Aldo first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide27–30

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 — 15 scored, Jose Aldo first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAFighting.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Keith Shillan FanSided.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–30
Nolan King FloCombat27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Volkanovski · 72%29-28 Volkanovski · 12%29-28 Aldo · 8%30-26 Volkanovski · 5%30-25 Volkanovski · 1%

207 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.

Jose Aldo

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.63 / 15m
0.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.79 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
34%
0.10 / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Jose Aldo vs Alexander Volkanovski.

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