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Events · UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka · Kai Kamaka vs TJ Brown
From the tape · 1 May 2021

Kai Kamaka vs TJ Brown

UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

TJ Brown beat Kai Kamaka

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

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Red corner KaiKamakaXtreme Couture · Waipahu, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TJBrown“Downtown”
Featherweight3 rounds1 May 2021
The story going in
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Brown.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kamaka.
18-8-1
Record
17-11
−4 yr26
Age
30
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
2
UFC bouts
2
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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
Kai Kamaka22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 34BODY18%4 of 4LEGS32%7 of 9
TJ Brown34 sig landed
HEAD50%17 of 63BODY26%9 of 15LEGS24%8 of 10
22 of 47
Sig.
strikes
34 of 88
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:45
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kamaka firstMichael Bell9–10Adalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Kamaka1 sub attempt
Kai Kamaka26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 40BODY27%7 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
TJ Brown24 sig landed
HEAD79%19 of 63BODY21%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 49
Sig.
strikes
24 of 69
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:44
Control
0:25
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kamaka firstMichael Bell10–9Adalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kai Kamaka13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 26BODY23%3 of 5LEGS8%1 of 1
TJ Brown24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 48BODY21%5 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
13 of 32
Sig.
strikes
24 of 54
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:09
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Kamaka firstMichael Bell9–10Adalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Kai KamakaTJ Brown
Official totals — Kai Kamaka first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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, Kai Kamaka first · unofficial

Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
II I Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
II I Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
II I Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
II I Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
II I Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
II I Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
II I Lev Pisarsky Sherdog.com29–28
II I MMAMania.com29–28
II I Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
II I Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
II I CombatPress.com30–27
II I Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
II I Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
II I MMAJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Kamaka III · 39%29-28 Kamaka III · 38%29-28 Brown · 19%30-27 Brown · 2%30-24 Brown · 1%

165 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.

Kai Kamaka

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.41 / 15m
2.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.98 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
57%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

TJ Brown

3.41takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Kai Kamaka vs TJ Brown.

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