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History · 2020 · UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje · Aleksei Oleinik vs Fabricio Werdum
From the tape · 9 May 2020

Aleksei Oleinik vs Fabricio Werdum

UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Aleksei Oleinik beat Fabricio Werdum

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

AO
Red corner AlekseiOleinik“The Boa Constrictor”
VSOn the tape
FW
Blue corner FabricioWerdum“Vai Cavalo”Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Heavyweight3 rounds9 May 2020
The story going in
  • Every one of Oleinik’s 7 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Oleinik.
60-17-1
Record
24-9-1
42
Age
42
6' 2"
Height
+2″6' 4"
+3″80″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
+516
+36%7/7100% of wins
Finishes
7/1164% of wins
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
Aleksei Oleinik54 sig landed
HEAD87%47 of 86BODY9%5 of 5LEGS4%2 of 3
Fabricio Werdum25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 24BODY28%7 of 9LEGS16%4 of 4
54 of 94
Sig.
strikes
25 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:31
Control
0:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 39Clinch 15Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Oleinik firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Aleksei Oleinik26 sig landed
HEAD81%21 of 58BODY12%3 of 3LEGS8%2 of 2
Fabricio Werdum24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 23BODY29%7 of 10LEGS21%5 of 5
26 of 63
Sig.
strikes
24 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:56
Control
1:19
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 3
Judges · this round · Oleinik firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Aleksei Oleinik14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 23BODY14%2 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
Fabricio Werdum4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 5BODY50%2 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
14 of 26
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:26
Control
2:29
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Oleinik firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee9–10Barry Luxenberg9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Aleksei OleinikFabricio Werdum
Official totals — Aleksei Oleinik first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Barry Luxenberg29–28

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 — 14 scored, Aleksei Oleinik first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling29–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Chris Connor The Fight City29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Oleinik · 52%29-28 Werdum · 28%29-27 Oleinik · 10%30-27 Oleinik · 3%

191 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.

Aleksei Oleinik

1.82takedowns / 15 min
1.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.75 / 15m
3.96 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.65 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
31%
1.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Fabricio Werdum

1.75takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Aleksei Oleinik↓ −7.2pp
open 34.7%close 27.5%
Fabricio Werdum↑ +7.2pp
open 65.3%close 72.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aleksei Oleinik opened at 34.7% and closed at 27.5% (−7.2pp), with Fabricio Werdum 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
Aleksei Oleinik17025034.7%27.5%−7.2pp
Fabricio Werdum-230-30765.3%72.5%+7.2pp
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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