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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Rakic · Anthony Smith vs Aleksandar Rakic
From the tape · 29 Aug 2020

Anthony Smith vs Aleksandar Rakic

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

Aleksandar Rakic beat Anthony Smith

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · 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 AnthonySmith“Lionheart”Factory X · Omaha, Nebraska
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AleksandarRakic“Rocket”Vienna
Light Heavyweight3 rounds29 Aug 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Rakic.
  • Carries 35 points more takedown defence than Smith.
38-22
Record
15-6
32
Age
−4 yr28
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
76″
Reach
+2″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
+38%7/888% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Omaha, Nebraska
From
Vienna
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⚡ 1 KD Rakic
Anthony Smith5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 6BODY0%0 of 1LEGS80%4 of 4
Aleksandar Rakic17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 8BODY6%1 of 2LEGS65%11 of 11
5 of 11
Sig.
strikes
17 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
3:22
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Smith firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Smith4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Aleksandar Rakic9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 8BODY33%3 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
4 of 8
Sig.
strikes
9 of 12
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:10
Control
4:31
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Smith firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anthony Smith0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

Aleksandar Rakic18 sig landed
HEAD33%6 of 12BODY17%3 of 3LEGS50%9 of 9
0 of 2
Sig.
strikes
18 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
4:21
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 12
Judges · this round · Smith firstEric Colón8–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris 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 · Herb Dean
Anthony SmithAleksandar Rakic
Official totals — Anthony Smith first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide26–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30

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 — 17 scored, Anthony Smith first · unofficial

Steven Marrocco MMAFighting.com26–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport26–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com26–30
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com27–30
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl27–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rakic · 45%30-26 Rakic · 30%30-25 Rakic · 12%30-24 Rakic · 10%29-28 Smith · 1%

86 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.

Anthony Smith

0.44takedowns / 15 min
0.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.64 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.05 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
21%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Aleksandar Rakic

0.64takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Anthony Smith→ no move
open 32.2%close 31.8%
Aleksandar Rakic→ no move
open 67.8%close 68.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Anthony Smith opened at 32.2% and closed at 31.8% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Anthony Smith20020232.2%31.8%−0.4pp
Aleksandar Rakic-235-24567.8%68.2%+0.4pp
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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