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History · 2019 · UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 · Raphael Assuncao vs Cory Sandhagen
From the tape · 17 Aug 2019

Raphael Assuncao vs Cory Sandhagen

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

Cory Sandhagen beat Raphael Assuncao

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Frank Trigg

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.

RA
Red corner RaphaelAssuncaoXtreme Couture · Recife, Pernambuco
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CorySandhagenElevation Fight Team · Aurora, Colorado
Bantamweight3 rounds17 Aug 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Sandhagen.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
28-10
Record
18-7
37
Age
−10 yr27
5' 5"
Height
+6″5' 11"
66″
Reach
+4″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1014
UFC bouts
4
3/1127% of wins
Finishes
+48%3/475% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Elevation Fight Team
Recife, Pernambuco
From
Aurora, Colorado
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
Raphael Assuncao16 sig landed
HEAD19%3 of 20BODY56%9 of 9LEGS25%4 of 5
Cory Sandhagen25 sig landed
HEAD32%8 of 31BODY24%6 of 8LEGS44%11 of 13
16 of 34
Sig.
strikes
25 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:06
Control
0:35
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Assuncao firstMichael Bell9–10Luis Cobian9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Raphael Assuncao13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 10BODY46%6 of 6LEGS23%3 of 3
Cory Sandhagen14 sig landed
HEAD14%2 of 7BODY43%6 of 6LEGS43%6 of 7
13 of 19
Sig.
strikes
14 of 20
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:57
Control
2:53
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Assuncao firstMichael Bell9–10Luis Cobian9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Raphael Assuncao16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 20BODY31%5 of 5LEGS19%3 of 3
Cory Sandhagen23 sig landed
HEAD57%13 of 29BODY17%4 of 7LEGS26%6 of 8
16 of 28
Sig.
strikes
23 of 44
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:07
Control
0:18
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Assuncao firstMichael Bell9–10Luis Cobian10–9Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Frank Trigg
Raphael AssuncaoCory Sandhagen
Official totals — Raphael Assuncao first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Luis Cobian28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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, Raphael Assuncao first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Keith Shillan FanSided.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Patrick Auger Sherdog.com27–30
Bloody Elbow.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Sandhagen · 68%29-28 Sandhagen · 21%29-28 Assuncao · 9%30-26 Sandhagen · 2%

56 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.

Raphael Assuncao

1.65takedowns / 15 min
1.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.15 / 15m
4.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.38 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
34%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Cory Sandhagen

1.15takedowns / 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.

Raphael Assuncao↓ −14.1pp
open 45.2%close 31.1%
Cory Sandhagen↑ +14.1pp
open 54.8%close 68.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Raphael Assuncao opened at 45.2% and closed at 31.1% (−14.1pp), with Cory Sandhagen 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
Raphael Assuncao10521045.2%31.1%−14.1pp
Cory Sandhagen-145-25154.8%68.9%+14.1pp
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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