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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai · Alistair Overeem vs Augusto Sakai
From the tape · 5 Sep 2020

Alistair Overeem vs Augusto Sakai

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Alistair Overeem beat Augusto Sakai

Method
KO/TKO
Round
5 of 5
Clock
0:26
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.

AO
Red corner AlistairOvereem“The Demolition Man”Elevation Fight Team · Amsterdam
VSOn the tape
AS
Blue corner AugustoSakaiCuritiba, Parana
Heavyweight5 rounds5 Sep 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 18 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Sakai.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
47-19
Record
16-5-1
40
Age
−11 yr29
+1″6' 4"
Height
6' 3"
+3″80″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1418
UFC bouts
4
+23%8/1173% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Amsterdam
From
Curitiba, Parana
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Alistair Overeem11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 9BODY55%6 of 6LEGS27%3 of 3
Augusto Sakai22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 23BODY36%8 of 12LEGS5%1 of 1
11 of 18
Sig.
strikes
22 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:45
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 8Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Alistair Overeem13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 7BODY54%7 of 7LEGS8%1 of 2
Augusto Sakai24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 24BODY46%11 of 15LEGS4%1 of 1
13 of 16
Sig.
strikes
24 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:12
Control
0:58
Distance 4Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 14Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Alistair Overeem23 sig landed
HEAD43%10 of 14BODY39%9 of 9LEGS17%4 of 4
Augusto Sakai34 sig landed
HEAD79%27 of 47BODY12%4 of 4LEGS9%3 of 3
23 of 27
Sig.
strikes
34 of 54
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:44
Control
0:38
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 11Ground 2
Round 45:00 of action
Alistair Overeem40 sig landed
HEAD78%31 of 38BODY20%8 of 9LEGS2%1 of 1
Augusto Sakai19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 36BODY11%2 of 3LEGS16%3 of 4
40 of 48
Sig.
strikes
19 of 43
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:18
Control
0:01
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 33
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 50:26 of actionEnded 0:26
Alistair Overeem5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Augusto Sakai0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

5 of 5
Sig.
strikes
0 of 0
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Alistair Overeem

Round
5
Clock
0:26
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Alistair Overeem

1.42takedowns / 15 min
1.42 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.23 / 15m
2.58 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.57 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
40%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Augusto Sakai

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 (5.77 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.

Alistair Overeem↓ −10.3pp
open 70.7%close 60.4%
Augusto Sakai↑ +10.3pp
open 29.3%close 39.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alistair Overeem opened at 70.7% and closed at 60.4% (−10.3pp), with Augusto Sakai 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
Alistair Overeem-270-16870.7%60.4%−10.3pp
Augusto Sakai23014329.3%39.6%+10.3pp
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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