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History · 2022 · UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Hakeem Dawodu vs Julian Erosa
From the tape · 10 Sep 2022

Hakeem Dawodu vs Julian Erosa

UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Julian Erosa beat Hakeem Dawodu

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · 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 HakeemDawodu“Mean”Calgary, Alberta
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JulianErosa“Juicy J”Xtreme Couture · Yakima, Washington
Featherweight3 rounds10 Sep 2022
The story going in
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Erosa.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
13-4-1
Record
31-14
−2 yr31
Age
33
5' 8"
Height
+5″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
8
UFC bouts
+210
1/617% of wins
Finishes
+43%3/560% of wins
Calgary, Alberta
From
Yakima, Washington
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
Hakeem Dawodu31 sig landed
HEAD45%14 of 36BODY32%10 of 12LEGS23%7 of 9
Julian Erosa48 sig landed
HEAD67%32 of 67BODY31%15 of 16LEGS2%1 of 4
31 of 57
Sig.
strikes
48 of 87
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:04
Control
0:41
Distance 23Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 14Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dawodu firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Hakeem Dawodu21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 34BODY10%2 of 2LEGS14%3 of 3
Julian Erosa22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 39BODY27%6 of 9LEGS14%3 of 3
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
22 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:30
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 5
Judges · this round · Dawodu firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Hakeem Dawodu22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 39BODY27%6 of 7LEGS14%3 of 5
Julian Erosa22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 43BODY32%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 51
Sig.
strikes
22 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:08
Control
1:11
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 4
Judges · this round · Dawodu firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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
Hakeem DawoduJulian Erosa
Official totals — Hakeem Dawodu first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30

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 — 22 scored, Hakeem Dawodu first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com26–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno26–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com26–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Alex Behunin Cageside Press27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Jillian DeCoursey27–30
Bloody Elbow.com27–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Erosa · 86%30-26 Erosa · 5%30-25 Erosa · 5%30-24 Erosa · 2%30-28 Erosa · 2%

42 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.

Hakeem Dawodu

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.73 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
4.02 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
43%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Julian Erosa

1.73takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Hakeem Dawodu↑ +2.4pp
open 63.5%close 65.8%
Julian Erosa↓ −2.4pp
open 36.5%close 34.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Hakeem Dawodu opened at 63.5% and closed at 65.8% (+2.4pp), with Julian Erosa 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
Hakeem Dawodu-190-21863.5%65.8%+2.4pp
Julian Erosa16518136.5%34.2%−2.4pp
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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