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Events · UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 · Kyung Ho Kang vs Brandon Davis
From the tape · 17 Aug 2019

Kyung Ho Kang vs Brandon Davis

UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Kyung Ho Kang beat Brandon Davis

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · George Allen

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 Kyung HoKang“Mr. Perfect”Busan Team MAD · Busan, Yeongnam
VSOn the tape
BD
Blue corner BrandonDavis“Killer B”Alan Belcher MMA Club · Starkville, Mississippi
Bantamweight3 rounds17 Aug 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.5 more significant strikes a minute than Kang.
  • Is 12 points more accurate striking than Davis.
19-11
Record
14-10
31
Age
−2 yr29
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
+1″73″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+27
UFC bouts
5
3/475% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Busan Team MAD
Gym
Alan Belcher MMA Club
Busan, Yeongnam
From
Starkville, Mississippi
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⚡ 1 KD Kang
Kyung Ho Kang23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 38BODY4%1 of 1LEGS9%2 of 3
Brandon Davis23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 45BODY13%3 of 4LEGS61%14 of 21
23 of 42
Sig.
strikes
23 of 70
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:15
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kang firstDerek Cleary10–9Luis Cobian10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kyung Ho Kang16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 40BODY0%0 landedLEGS6%1 of 1
Brandon Davis32 sig landed
HEAD38%12 of 45BODY31%10 of 11LEGS31%10 of 15
16 of 41
Sig.
strikes
32 of 71
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:10
Control
0:24
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Kang firstDerek Cleary9–10Luis Cobian9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kyung Ho Kang11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Brandon Davis22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 36BODY18%4 of 5LEGS18%4 of 5
11 of 18
Sig.
strikes
22 of 46
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:55
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 10
Judges · this round · Kang firstDerek Cleary10–9Luis Cobian9–10Ron McCarthy10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · George Allen
Kyung Ho KangBrandon Davis
Official totals — Kyung Ho Kang first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Luis Cobian28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28

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 — 16 scored, Kyung Ho Kang first · unofficial

Keith Shillan FanSided.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Patrick Auger Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kang · 85%29-28 Davis · 8%30-27 Kang · 6%

47 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.

Kyung Ho Kang

1.97takedowns / 15 min
1.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.74 / 15m
3.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.76 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
42%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Brandon Davis

0.74takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Kyung Ho Kang↑ +2.4pp
open 61.4%close 63.8%
Brandon Davis↓ −2.4pp
open 38.6%close 36.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kyung Ho Kang opened at 61.4% and closed at 63.8% (+2.4pp), with Brandon Davis 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
Kyung Ho Kang-185-19561.4%63.8%+2.4pp
Brandon Davis14516738.6%36.2%−2.4pp
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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