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Events · UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington · Max Holloway vs Alexander Volkanovski
From the tape · 14 Dec 2019

Max Holloway vs Alexander Volkanovski

UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Max Holloway

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Featherweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · Jason Herzog

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 MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
Featherweight Title5 rounds14 Dec 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
  • 21 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Volkanovski.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
28-9
Record
28-4
−3 yr28
Age
31
+5″5' 11"
Height
5' 6"
69″
Reach
+2″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1421
UFC bouts
7
+22%11/1765% of wins
Finishes
3/743% of wins
Waianae, Hawaii
From
Windang, New South Wales
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Max Holloway19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 33BODY21%4 of 4LEGS11%2 of 3
Alexander Volkanovski27 sig landed
HEAD41%11 of 34BODY11%3 of 4LEGS48%13 of 18
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
27 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:13
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Max Holloway22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 46BODY9%2 of 4LEGS18%4 of 5
Alexander Volkanovski28 sig landed
HEAD14%4 of 19BODY7%2 of 4LEGS79%22 of 25
22 of 55
Sig.
strikes
28 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 46BODY14%3 of 4LEGS27%6 of 10
Alexander Volkanovski35 sig landed
HEAD40%14 of 34BODY17%6 of 12LEGS43%15 of 17
22 of 60
Sig.
strikes
35 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Max Holloway37 sig landed
HEAD65%24 of 54BODY24%9 of 11LEGS11%4 of 6
Alexander Volkanovski36 sig landed
HEAD56%20 of 51BODY3%1 of 6LEGS42%15 of 18
37 of 71
Sig.
strikes
36 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:10
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway34 sig landed
HEAD56%19 of 54BODY41%14 of 21LEGS3%1 of 2
Alexander Volkanovski31 sig landed
HEAD58%18 of 40BODY10%3 of 6LEGS32%10 of 15
34 of 77
Sig.
strikes
31 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:02
Control
0:21
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Max HollowayAlexander Volkanovski
Official totals — Max Holloway first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell47–48
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide45–50
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide47–48

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 — 19 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

MM AMania.com45–50
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com45–49
MM ABrasil.com.br46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com46–49
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com46–49
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com46–49
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com46–49
Matthew Wells FanSided.com46–49
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com46–49
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com46–49
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com46–49
John Pollock POST Wrestling47–48
Phil Murphy ESPN47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com47–48
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com47–48
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com47–48
MM AJunkie.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Volkanovski · 35%50-45 Volkanovski · 29%48-47 Volkanovski · 18%48-47 Holloway · 12%49-47 Volkanovski · 1%

1,511 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.

Max Holloway

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.63 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.79 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
34%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Alexander Volkanovski

1.63takedowns / 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.

Max Holloway↓ −2.4pp
open 66.1%close 63.7%
Alexander Volkanovski↑ +2.4pp
open 33.9%close 36.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Holloway opened at 66.1% and closed at 63.7% (−2.4pp), with Alexander Volkanovski 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
Max Holloway-245-19466.1%63.7%−2.4pp
Alexander Volkanovski17516633.9%36.3%+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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