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Events · UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya · Al Iaquinta vs Dan Hooker
From the tape · 5 Oct 2019

Al Iaquinta vs Dan Hooker

UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result

Dan Hooker beat Al Iaquinta

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · John Sharp

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.

AI
Red corner AlIaquinta“Raging”Serra-Longo Fight Team · New York City, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DanHooker“The Hangman”City Kickboxing · Auckland
Lightweight3 rounds5 Oct 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Hooker’s 8 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Hooker.
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Iaquinta.
14-7-1
Record
24-14
32
Age
−3 yr29
5' 10"
Height
+2″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+5″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+113
UFC bouts
12
4/944% of wins
Finishes
+56%8/8100% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
City Kickboxing
New York City, New York
From
Auckland
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
Al Iaquinta5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 22BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Dan Hooker38 sig landed
HEAD66%25 of 49BODY0%0 landedLEGS34%13 of 14
5 of 23
Sig.
strikes
38 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:14
Control
1:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 15
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstRitchie Gerard9–10Garth Harriman9–10David Lethaby8–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Hooker
Al Iaquinta15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 28BODY20%3 of 5LEGS33%5 of 6
Dan Hooker27 sig landed
HEAD67%18 of 51BODY11%3 of 5LEGS22%6 of 7
15 of 39
Sig.
strikes
27 of 63
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:09
Control
1:01
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstRitchie Gerard9–10Garth Harriman9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Al Iaquinta17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 43BODY18%3 of 5LEGS24%4 of 6
Dan Hooker33 sig landed
HEAD76%25 of 68BODY12%4 of 8LEGS12%4 of 5
17 of 54
Sig.
strikes
33 of 81
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstRitchie Gerard9–10Garth Harriman9–10David Lethaby9–10

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 · John Sharp
Al IaquintaDan Hooker
Official totals — Al Iaquinta first
JudgeTotal
Ritchie Gerard27–30
Garth Harriman1.9 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide26–30

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 — 17 scored, Al Iaquinta first · unofficial

MM AMania.com26–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com26–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com26–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com26–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com27–30
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Phil Murphy ESPN27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Hooker · 53%30-26 Hooker · 36%30-25 Hooker · 8%30-24 Hooker · 2%29-26 Iaquinta · 2%

53 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.

Al Iaquinta

0.63takedowns / 15 min
0.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.68 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.06 / 15m
18%
ACCURACY
33%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Dan Hooker

0.68takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Al Iaquinta↓ −6.6pp
open 51.9%close 45.3%
Dan Hooker↑ +6.6pp
open 48.1%close 54.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Al Iaquinta opened at 51.9% and closed at 45.3% (−6.6pp), with Dan Hooker 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
Al Iaquinta-13011251.9%45.3%−6.6pp
Dan Hooker-110-13248.1%54.7%+6.6pp
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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