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Events · UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Kamaru Usman vs Jorge Masvidal
From the tape · 11 Jul 2020

Kamaru Usman vs Jorge Masvidal

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

Kamaru Usman beat Jorge Masvidal

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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 KamaruUsman“The Nigerian Nightmare”Kill Cliff FC · Auchi, Edo
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JorgeMasvidal“Gamebred”American Top Team · Miami, Florida
Welterweight Title5 rounds11 Jul 2020
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 11-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
21-5
Record
35-17
−2 yr33
Age
35
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
+718
3/1127% of wins
Finishes
+31%7/1258% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
American Top Team
Auchi, Edo
From
Miami, Florida
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
Kamaru Usman18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 27BODY56%10 of 12LEGS6%1 of 1
Jorge Masvidal24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 28BODY21%5 of 9LEGS25%6 of 6
18 of 40
Sig.
strikes
24 of 43
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:36
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 7Ground 1
Judges · this round · Usman firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Kamaru Usman27 sig landed
HEAD37%10 of 15BODY63%17 of 17LEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Masvidal20 sig landed
HEAD25%5 of 16BODY55%11 of 12LEGS20%4 of 4
27 of 32
Sig.
strikes
20 of 32
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:40
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 16Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Kamaru Usman14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 23BODY29%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Masvidal12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 8BODY50%6 of 7LEGS33%4 of 4
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
12 of 19
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:14
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Kamaru Usman23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 15BODY57%13 of 15LEGS4%1 of 1
Jorge Masvidal6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 9BODY67%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 31
Sig.
strikes
6 of 15
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:37
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 14Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kamaru Usman12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 16BODY42%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Masvidal4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 8BODY75%3 of 5LEGS0%0 of 3
12 of 21
Sig.
strikes
4 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:31
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Kamaru UsmanJorge Masvidal
Official totals — Kamaru Usman first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide50–45
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide50–45
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide49–46

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 — 24 scored, Kamaru Usman first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br50–45
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com49–46
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com49–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–46
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Phil Murphy ESPN49–46
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily49–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges49–46
John Pollock POST Wrestling49–46
Nick Baldwin theScore49–46
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com49–46
Matthew Wells FanSided.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com49–46
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com49–46
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Usman · 63%50-45 Usman · 17%48-47 Usman · 5%50-45 Masvidal · 2%50-43 Usman · 2%

675 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.

Kamaru Usman

2.79takedowns / 15 min
2.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.38 / 15m
6.34 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.34 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
59%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Jorge Masvidal

1.38takedowns / 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.

Kamaru Usmanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 69.9%
Jorge Masvidalclose only
no opening line on recordclose 30.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Kamaru Usman 69.9%, Jorge Masvidal 30.1%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Kamaru Usman-26369.9%
Jorge Masvidal20022130.1%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Kamaru Usman, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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