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Events · UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith · Alexander Gustafsson vs Anthony Smith
From the tape · 1 Jun 2019

Alexander Gustafsson vs Anthony Smith

UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith · Stockholm, Sweden
Result

Anthony Smith beat Alexander Gustafsson

Method
Submission
Round
4 of 5
Clock
2:38
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · 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.

AG
Red corner AlexanderGustafsson“The Mauler”Stockholm, Stockholm County
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AnthonySmith“Lionheart”Factory X · Omaha, Nebraska
Light Heavyweight5 rounds1 Jun 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Smith.
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Gustafsson.
18-8
Record
38-22
32
Age
−2 yr30
+1″6' 5"
Height
6' 4"
+3″79″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+415
UFC bouts
11
7/1070% of wins
Finishes
+16%6/786% of wins
Stockholm, Stockholm County
From
Omaha, Nebraska
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

4 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Alexander Gustafsson8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 10BODY0%0 of 5LEGS88%7 of 12
Anthony Smith13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 16BODY8%1 of 2LEGS54%7 of 8
8 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Alexander Gustafsson19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 18BODY11%2 of 5LEGS63%12 of 16
Anthony Smith13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 23BODY31%4 of 7LEGS23%3 of 4
19 of 39
Sig.
strikes
13 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Alexander Gustafsson38 sig landed
HEAD47%18 of 42BODY13%5 of 10LEGS39%15 of 19
Anthony Smith15 sig landed
HEAD20%3 of 15BODY27%4 of 7LEGS53%8 of 10
38 of 71
Sig.
strikes
15 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:38
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 42:38 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:38
Alexander Gustafsson7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 9BODY14%1 of 1LEGS57%4 of 4
Anthony Smith8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 8BODY25%2 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
8 of 12
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:24
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 5

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

Anthony Smith

Round
4
Clock
2:38
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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Alexander Gustafsson

1.53takedowns / 15 min
1.53 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.44 / 15m
3.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.00 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
22%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Anthony Smith

0.44takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Alexander Gustafsson↑ +7.4pp
open 66.1%close 73.5%
Anthony Smith↓ −7.4pp
open 33.9%close 26.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexander Gustafsson opened at 66.1% and closed at 73.5% (+7.4pp), with Anthony Smith 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
Alexander Gustafsson-245-32766.1%73.5%+7.4pp
Anthony Smith17526233.9%26.5%−7.4pp
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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