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Events · UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane · Da'Mon Blackshear vs Farid Basharat
From the tape · 4 Mar 2023

Da'Mon Blackshear vs Farid Basharat

UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Farid Basharat beat Da'Mon Blackshear

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 Da'MonBlackshear“The Monster”Kill Cliff FC · Fayetteville, North Carolina
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FaridBasharat“Ferocious”American Top Team · London
Bantamweight3 rounds4 Mar 2023
The story going in
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Basharat.
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Blackshear.
17-8-1
Record
16-0
28
Age
−3 yr25
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
American Top Team
Fayetteville, North Carolina
From
London
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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
Da'Mon Blackshear9 sig landed
HEAD11%1 of 19BODY22%2 of 4LEGS67%6 of 13
Farid Basharat17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 19BODY24%4 of 6LEGS29%5 of 6
9 of 36
Sig.
strikes
17 of 31
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:11
Control
1:41
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blackshear firstChris Lee9–10David Lethaby9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Da'Mon Blackshear15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 23BODY27%4 of 5LEGS27%4 of 8
Farid Basharat21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 21BODY29%6 of 7LEGS10%2 of 2
15 of 36
Sig.
strikes
21 of 30
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:30
Control
1:36
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Blackshear firstChris Lee9–10David Lethaby9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Da'Mon Blackshear22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 37BODY27%6 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
Farid Basharat20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 30BODY20%4 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
22 of 45
Sig.
strikes
20 of 35
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:57
Control
2:11
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 5
Judges · this round · Blackshear firstChris Lee10–9David Lethaby10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Da'Mon BlackshearFarid Basharat
Official totals — Da'Mon Blackshear first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 18 scored, Da'Mon Blackshear first · unofficial

Combat Press.com27–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com27–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jake Noecker BetQL27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM AMania.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Shane Clifford Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jillian DeCoursey28–29
Alex Behunin Cageside Press28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Basharat · 42%30-27 Basharat · 38%29-28 Blackshear · 16%30-29 Basharat · 2%

45 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.

Da'Mon Blackshear

1.48takedowns / 15 min
1.48 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.34 / 15m
4.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.59 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
44%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Farid Basharat

3.34takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

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