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Events · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic · Alessio Di Chirico vs Zak Cummings
From the tape · 29 Aug 2020

Alessio Di Chirico vs Zak Cummings

UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Zak Cummings beat Alessio Di Chirico

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

AC
Red corner Alessio DiChirico“Manzo”Gloria Fight Center · Rome
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ZakCummingsFactory X · Springfield, Missouri
Middleweight3 rounds29 Aug 2020
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Cummings.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Chirico.
13-7
Record
25-7
−6 yr30
Age
36
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
7
UFC bouts
+512
1/333% of wins
Finishes
+29%5/862% of wins
Gloria Fight Center
Gym
Factory X
Rome
From
Springfield, Missouri
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
Alessio Di Chirico18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 35BODY11%2 of 5LEGS22%4 of 4
Zak Cummings12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 22BODY25%3 of 3LEGS33%4 of 4
18 of 44
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chirico firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alessio Di Chirico15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 40BODY33%5 of 8LEGS7%1 of 1
Zak Cummings17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 39BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
15 of 49
Sig.
strikes
17 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chirico firstDerek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD CummingsEnded 5:00
Alessio Di Chirico20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 52BODY25%5 of 9LEGS15%3 of 3
Zak Cummings25 sig landed
HEAD64%16 of 54BODY24%6 of 10LEGS12%3 of 3
20 of 64
Sig.
strikes
25 of 67
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chirico firstDerek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Alessio Di ChiricoZak Cummings
Official totals — Alessio Di Chirico first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 15 scored, Alessio Di Chirico first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–29
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com27–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cummings · 81%29-28 Di Chirico · 5%29-27 Cummings · 5%30-26 Cummings · 2%

42 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.

Alessio Di Chirico

1.46takedowns / 15 min
1.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.62 / 15m
3.74 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.21 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
28%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Zak Cummings

0.62takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Alessio Di Chirico↑ +10.9pp
open 43.8%close 54.7%
Zak Cummings↓ −10.9pp
open 56.2%close 45.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alessio Di Chirico opened at 43.8% and closed at 54.7% (+10.9pp), with Zak Cummings 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
Alessio Di Chirico120-13443.8%54.7%+10.9pp
Zak Cummings-14011156.2%45.3%−10.9pp
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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