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History · 2022 · UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier · Israel Adesanya vs Jared Cannonier
From the tape · 2 Jul 2022

Israel Adesanya vs Jared Cannonier

UFC 276: Adesanya vs. Cannonier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Israel Adesanya beat Jared Cannonier

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 JaredCannonier“The Killa Gorilla”MMA Lab · Anchorage, Alaska
Middleweight Title5 rounds2 Jul 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
24-6
Record
18-10
−6 yr32
Age
38
+5″6' 4"
Height
5' 11"
+3″80″
Reach
77″
Switch
Stance
Switch
12
UFC bouts
+113
4/1136% of wins
Finishes
+39%6/875% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
MMA Lab
Lagos
From
Anchorage, Alaska
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
Israel Adesanya22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 29BODY27%6 of 8LEGS41%9 of 11
Jared Cannonier18 sig landed
HEAD6%1 of 6BODY33%6 of 8LEGS61%11 of 14
22 of 48
Sig.
strikes
18 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Israel Adesanya28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 32BODY32%9 of 9LEGS25%7 of 7
Jared Cannonier19 sig landed
HEAD32%6 of 15BODY47%9 of 11LEGS21%4 of 5
28 of 48
Sig.
strikes
19 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Israel Adesanya17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 26BODY24%4 of 4LEGS24%4 of 5
Jared Cannonier17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 22BODY35%6 of 8LEGS24%4 of 6
17 of 35
Sig.
strikes
17 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
1:29
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Israel Adesanya24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 34BODY21%5 of 7LEGS17%4 of 4
Jared Cannonier16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 27BODY38%6 of 7LEGS12%2 of 2
24 of 45
Sig.
strikes
16 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:18
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Israel Adesanya25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 44BODY8%2 of 3LEGS24%6 of 7
Jared Cannonier20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 19BODY25%5 of 6LEGS5%1 of 1
25 of 54
Sig.
strikes
20 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:27
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Israel AdesanyaJared Cannonier
Official totals — Israel Adesanya first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide49–46

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 — 21 scored, Israel Adesanya first · unofficial

Mike Sloan Sherdog.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com50–45
Combat Press.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com50–45
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Bloody Elbow.com49–46
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press49–46
Jillian DeCoursey49–46
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com49–46
Nick Baldwin theScore49–46
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News49–46
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com49–46
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Adesanya · 43%48-47 Adesanya · 19%50-45 Adesanya · 16%48-47 Cannonier · 15%50-45 Cannonier · 2%

382 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
0.54 / 15m
0.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.35 / 15m
9%
ACCURACY
40%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jared Cannonier

0.54takedowns / 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↑ +8.7pp
open 72.4%close 81.1%
Jared Cannonier↓ −8.7pp
open 27.6%close 18.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Israel Adesanya opened at 72.4% and closed at 81.1% (+8.7pp), with Jared Cannonier 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-300-58672.4%81.1%+8.7pp
Jared Cannonier25040227.6%18.9%−8.7pp
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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