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History · 2022 · UFC 271: Adesanya vs. Whittaker 2 · Israel Adesanya vs Robert Whittaker
From the tape · 12 Feb 2022

Israel Adesanya vs Robert Whittaker

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

Israel Adesanya beat Robert Whittaker

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Middleweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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 IsraelAdesanya“The Last Stylebender”City Kickboxing · Lagos
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RobertWhittaker“The Reaper”PMA Super Martial Arts · Sydney, New South Wales
Middleweight Title5 rounds12 Feb 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 14 UFC wins.
24-6
Record
28-9
32
Age
−1 yr31
+4″6' 4"
Height
6' 0"
+7″80″
Reach
73″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
+617
+4%4/1040% of wins
Finishes
5/1436% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
PMA Super Martial Arts
Lagos
From
Sydney, New South Wales
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Adesanya
Israel Adesanya18 sig landed
HEAD17%3 of 14BODY22%4 of 6LEGS61%11 of 14
Robert Whittaker9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 12BODY11%1 of 1LEGS56%5 of 8
18 of 34
Sig.
strikes
9 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:01
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstMike Beltran10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Israel Adesanya16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 30BODY0%0 of 2LEGS44%7 of 9
Robert Whittaker12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 27BODY25%3 of 4LEGS17%2 of 2
16 of 41
Sig.
strikes
12 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:52
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstMike Beltran9–10Douglas Crosby10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Israel Adesanya17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 24BODY18%3 of 4LEGS18%3 of 5
Robert Whittaker12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 20BODY8%1 of 3LEGS17%2 of 5
17 of 33
Sig.
strikes
12 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:30
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstMike Beltran10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Israel Adesanya15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 26BODY33%5 of 7LEGS27%4 of 6
Robert Whittaker16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 29BODY19%3 of 3LEGS19%3 of 3
15 of 39
Sig.
strikes
16 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:40
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstMike Beltran10–9Douglas Crosby9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Israel Adesanya13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 14BODY15%2 of 4LEGS31%4 of 4
Robert Whittaker10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS10%1 of 2
13 of 22
Sig.
strikes
10 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
1:38
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstMike Beltran10–9Douglas Crosby9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10

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
Israel AdesanyaRobert Whittaker
Official totals — Israel Adesanya first
JudgeTotal
Mike Beltran49–46
Douglas Crosby48–47
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% wide48–47

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 — 25 scored, Israel Adesanya first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com50–45
John Pollock POST Wrestling49–46
Jillian DeCoursey49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Scott Fontana New York Post49–46
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com48–47
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com48–47
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–47
Dan Urban Couchside Judges48–47
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily48–47
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks48–47
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com48–47
Nick Baldwin theScore47–48
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com47–48
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Whittaker · 54%48-47 Adesanya · 24%49-46 Adesanya · 9%49-46 Whittaker · 7%

2,957 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.

Israel Adesanya

0.05takedowns / 15 min
0.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.73 / 15m
0.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.92 / 15m
9%
ACCURACY
38%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Robert Whittaker

0.73takedowns / 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.

Israel Adesanya↑ +1.8pp
open 69.8%close 71.6%
Robert Whittaker↓ −1.8pp
open 30.2%close 28.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Israel Adesanya opened at 69.8% and closed at 71.6% (+1.8pp), with Robert Whittaker 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
Israel Adesanya-260-30269.8%71.6%+1.8pp
Robert Whittaker22023530.2%28.4%−1.8pp
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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