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Events · UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos · Francis Ngannou vs Junior Dos Santos
From the tape · 29 Jun 2019

Francis Ngannou vs Junior Dos Santos

UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Dos Santos · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Result

Francis Ngannou beat Junior Dos Santos

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 5
Clock
1:11
HeavyweightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

FN
Red corner FrancisNgannou“The Predator”Xtreme Couture · Paris
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner Junior DosSantos“Cigano”Cacador, Santa Catarina
Heavyweight5 rounds29 Jun 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Ngannou’s 8 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 10 of 15 UFC wins.
17-3
Record
21-9
−3 yr32
Age
35
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
+6″83″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+919
+33%8/8100% of wins
Finishes
10/1567% of wins
Paris
From
Cacador, Santa Catarina
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

1 round of tape

Round 11:11 of action⚡ 1 KD NgannouEnded 1:11
Francis Ngannou9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 14BODY11%1 of 1LEGS33%3 of 4
Junior Dos Santos4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 3BODY25%1 of 1LEGS50%2 of 2
9 of 19
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 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

Francis Ngannou

Round
1
Clock
1:11
Method
KO/TKO

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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Francis Ngannou

0.76takedowns / 15 min
0.76 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.30 / 15m
1.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.60 / 15m
62%
ACCURACY
50%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Junior Dos Santos

0.30takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Francis Ngannou→ no move
open 65.3%close 65.8%
Junior Dos Santos→ no move
open 34.7%close 34.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Francis Ngannou opened at 65.3% and closed at 65.8% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Francis Ngannou-230-21665.3%65.8%+0.5pp
Junior Dos Santos17018134.7%34.2%−0.5pp
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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