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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Lawler · Darko Stosic vs Kennedy Nzechukwu
From the tape · 3 Aug 2019

Darko Stosic vs Kennedy Nzechukwu

UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Lawler · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Kennedy Nzechukwu beat Darko Stosic

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Gary Copeland

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.

DS
Red corner DarkoStosicMMA Red Star · Belgrade
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KennedyNzechukwu“African Savage”Fortis MMA · Dallas, Texas
Light Heavyweight3 rounds3 Aug 2019
The story going in
  • Averages 2.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Nzechukwu.
  • Lands 2.4 more significant strikes a minute than Stosic.
13-4
Record
14-7-1
27
Age
27
6' 0"
Height
+5″6' 5"
76″
Reach
+7″83″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+12
UFC bouts
1
MMA Red Star
Gym
Fortis MMA
Belgrade
From
Dallas, Texas
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
Darko Stosic29 sig landed
HEAD38%11 of 22BODY7%2 of 2LEGS55%16 of 19
Kennedy Nzechukwu9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 25BODY22%2 of 6LEGS11%1 of 1
29 of 43
Sig.
strikes
9 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:20
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stosic firstJon Bilyk10–9Munah Querido10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Darko Stosic15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 19BODY20%3 of 4LEGS67%10 of 20
Kennedy Nzechukwu26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 40BODY31%8 of 12LEGS4%1 of 2
15 of 43
Sig.
strikes
26 of 54
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:21
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Stosic firstJon Bilyk8–10Munah Querido8–10Cardo Urso8–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darko Stosic16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 39BODY12%2 of 3LEGS38%6 of 6
Kennedy Nzechukwu15 sig landed
HEAD100%15 of 37BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
16 of 48
Sig.
strikes
15 of 37
3 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stosic firstJon Bilyk9–9Munah Querido8–10Cardo Urso8–10

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 · Gary Copeland
Darko StosicKennedy Nzechukwu
Official totals — Darko Stosic first
JudgeTotal
Jon Bilyk27–28
Munah Querido26–29
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide26–29

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 — 13 scored, Darko Stosic first · unofficial

Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–28
MM ABrasil.com.br27–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–28
MM AJunkie.com27–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–28
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com27–28
John Brannigan Sherdog.com27–28
MM AMania.com27–28

Fan vote · unofficial

28-27 Nzechukwu · 54%28-27 Stosic · 30%29-26 Nzechukwu · 8%

59 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.

Darko Stosic

3.42takedowns / 15 min
3.42 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
6.84 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.11 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
45%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Kennedy Nzechukwu

0.50takedowns / 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

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.

Darko Stosic↑ +1.3pp
open 51.9%close 53.2%
Kennedy Nzechukwu↓ −1.3pp
open 48.1%close 46.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darko Stosic opened at 51.9% and closed at 53.2% (+1.3pp), with Kennedy Nzechukwu 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
Darko Stosic-130-12751.9%53.2%+1.3pp
Kennedy Nzechukwu-11010348.1%46.8%−1.3pp
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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