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Events · UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2 · Carlos Ulberg vs Fabio Cherant
From the tape · 12 Feb 2022

Carlos Ulberg vs Fabio Cherant

UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2 · Houston, Texas, USA
Result

Carlos Ulberg beat Fabio Cherant

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 CarlosUlberg“Black Jag”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
FC
Blue corner FabioCherant“Water Buffalo”Kill Cliff FC · Wrentham, Massachusetts
Light Heavyweight3 rounds12 Feb 2022
The story going in
  • Carries 85 points more takedown defence than Cherant.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
15-1
Record
7-4
31
Age
−4 yr27
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
+3″77″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
+12
City Kickboxing
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Auckland
From
Wrentham, Massachusetts
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
Carlos Ulberg19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 21BODY16%3 of 3LEGS42%8 of 9
Fabio Cherant4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 12BODY25%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 33
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
0:22
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ulberg firstRobert Alexander10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ivan Guzman10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Carlos Ulberg27 sig landed
HEAD48%13 of 25BODY19%5 of 7LEGS33%9 of 9
Fabio Cherant7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 8BODY71%5 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
27 of 41
Sig.
strikes
7 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ulberg firstRobert Alexander10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ivan Guzman10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Carlos Ulberg20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 20BODY35%7 of 9LEGS45%9 of 9
Fabio Cherant2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 10BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 38
Sig.
strikes
2 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:44
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ulberg firstRobert Alexander10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ivan Guzman10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Carlos UlbergFabio Cherant
Official totals — Carlos Ulberg first
JudgeTotal
Robert Alexander30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Ivan Guzman30–27

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 — 18 scored, Carlos Ulberg first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News30–27
Jillian DeCoursey30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Dan Urban Couchside Judges30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press30–27
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ulberg · 70%29-28 Ulberg · 16%30-27 Cherant · 4%30-28 Ulberg · 2%30-25 Ulberg · 2%

44 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

Carlos Ulberg

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.53takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.53 takedowns and 0.20 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS15
0.53 / 15m−1.74 vs field
ATTEMPTS6
0.88 / 15m−4.55 vs field
ACCURACY84
60%+17pp vs field
SUB ATT17
0.20 / 15m−1.39 vs field

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.

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.

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.

Carlos Ulberg↑ +10.5pp
open 57.1%close 67.6%
Fabio Cherant↓ −10.5pp
open 42.9%close 32.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Carlos Ulberg opened at 57.1% and closed at 67.6% (+10.5pp), with Fabio Cherant 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
Carlos Ulberg-145-23557.1%67.6%+10.5pp
Fabio Cherant12519842.9%32.4%−10.5pp
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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