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History · 2020 · UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway
From the tape · 11 Jul 2020

Alexander Volkanovski vs Max Holloway

UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Max Holloway

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Featherweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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.

Red corner AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
Featherweight Title5 rounds11 Jul 2020
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
  • 22 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Volkanovski.
28-4
Record
28-9
31
Age
−3 yr28
5' 6"
Height
+5″5' 11"
+2″71″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+1422
3/838% of wins
Finishes
+27%11/1765% of wins
Windang, New South Wales
From
Waianae, Hawaii
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
Alexander Volkanovski19 sig landed
HEAD32%6 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS68%13 of 20
Max Holloway19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 28BODY32%6 of 11LEGS21%4 of 8
19 of 39
Sig.
strikes
19 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstMark Collett9–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Alexander Volkanovski22 sig landed
HEAD27%6 of 19BODY5%1 of 3LEGS68%15 of 25
Max Holloway21 sig landed
HEAD29%6 of 27BODY24%5 of 9LEGS48%10 of 16
22 of 47
Sig.
strikes
21 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstMark Collett9–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Alexander Volkanovski25 sig landed
HEAD40%10 of 27BODY12%3 of 4LEGS48%12 of 21
Max Holloway15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 22BODY40%6 of 11LEGS47%7 of 14
25 of 52
Sig.
strikes
15 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:34
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstMark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Alexander Volkanovski34 sig landed
HEAD44%15 of 38BODY6%2 of 2LEGS50%17 of 23
Max Holloway24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 45BODY17%4 of 6LEGS25%6 of 10
34 of 63
Sig.
strikes
24 of 61
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstMark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alexander Volkanovski37 sig landed
HEAD73%27 of 58BODY0%0 of 1LEGS27%10 of 12
Max Holloway23 sig landed
HEAD57%13 of 45BODY26%6 of 9LEGS17%4 of 7
37 of 71
Sig.
strikes
23 of 61
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:38
Control
0:00
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstMark Collett10–9David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Alexander VolkanovskiMax Holloway
Official totals — Alexander Volkanovski first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide48–47
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide47–48
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide48–47

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 — 27 scored, Alexander Volkanovski first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
John Pollock POST Wrestling48–47
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com48–47
Matthew Wells FanSided.com48–47
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com48–47
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com47–48
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com47–48
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges47–48
Greg Rosenstein The Athletic47–48
Nick Baldwin theScore47–48
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com47–48
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com47–48
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily47–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno47–48
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com47–48
MM ABrasil.com.br47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Holloway · 52%48-47 Volkanovski · 35%49-46 Holloway · 6%48-46 Holloway · 1%

4,913 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.

Alexander Volkanovski

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

Max Holloway

0.23takedowns / 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.

Alexander Volkanovski↑ +1.5pp
open 63.5%close 65.0%
Max Holloway↓ −1.5pp
open 36.5%close 35.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexander Volkanovski opened at 63.5% and closed at 65.0% (+1.5pp), with Max Holloway 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
Alexander Volkanovski-190-20863.5%65.0%+1.5pp
Max Holloway16517536.5%35.0%−1.5pp
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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