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Events · UFC 243: Whittaker vs. Adesanya · Jake Matthews vs Rostem Akman
From the tape · 5 Oct 2019

Jake Matthews vs Rostem Akman

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

Jake Matthews beat Rostem Akman

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Greg Kleynjans

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 JakeMatthews“The Celtic Kid”Nexus · Epping, Victoria
VSOn the tape
RA
Blue corner RostemAkmanFightzone Stockholm · Stockholm
Welterweight3 rounds5 Oct 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Matthews.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Akman.
23-8
Record
6-2
−2 yr25
Age
27
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+1″73″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1011
UFC bouts
1
Nexus
Gym
Fightzone Stockholm
Epping, Victoria
From
Stockholm
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
Jake Matthews15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 20BODY33%5 of 12LEGS40%6 of 7
Rostem Akman5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 29BODY0%0 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 39
Sig.
strikes
5 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Matthews firstBen Cartlidge10–9Charlie Keech10–9Christopher Shen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jake Matthews18 sig landed
HEAD22%4 of 30BODY33%6 of 10LEGS44%8 of 8
Rostem Akman5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 36BODY60%3 of 5LEGS20%1 of 1
18 of 48
Sig.
strikes
5 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Matthews firstBen Cartlidge10–9Charlie Keech10–9Christopher Shen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jake Matthews26 sig landed
HEAD42%11 of 26BODY35%9 of 13LEGS23%6 of 7
Rostem Akman5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 29BODY60%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 46
Sig.
strikes
5 of 35
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:49
Control
0:03
Distance 21Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Matthews firstBen Cartlidge10–9Charlie Keech10–9Christopher Shen10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Greg Kleynjans
Jake MatthewsRostem Akman
Official totals — Jake Matthews first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Christopher Shen30–27

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 — 12 scored, Jake Matthews first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Matthews · 85%30-28 Matthews · 15%

13 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.

Jake Matthews

1.44takedowns / 15 min
1.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
3.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.50 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
40%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Rostem Akman

1.00takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Jake Matthews↑ +10.7pp
open 67.4%close 78.1%
Rostem Akman↓ −10.7pp
open 32.6%close 21.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jake Matthews opened at 67.4% and closed at 78.1% (+10.7pp), with Rostem Akman 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
Jake Matthews-265-43667.4%78.1%+10.7pp
Rostem Akman18533832.6%21.9%−10.7pp
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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