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Events · UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 · Chris Curtis vs Kelvin Gastelum
From the tape · 8 Apr 2023

Chris Curtis vs Kelvin Gastelum

UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 · Miami, Florida, USA
Result

Kelvin Gastelum beat Chris Curtis

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 ChrisCurtis“Action-Man”Xtreme Couture · Cincinnati, Ohio
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KelvinGastelumFight Ready · Yuma, Arizona
Middleweight3 rounds8 Apr 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Gastelum.
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
32-13
Record
21-11
35
Age
−4 yr31
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+4″75″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
5
UFC bouts
+1520
+30%3/475% of wins
Finishes
5/1145% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Fight Ready
Cincinnati, Ohio
From
Yuma, Arizona
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
Chris Curtis13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 40BODY8%1 of 2LEGS31%4 of 6
Kelvin Gastelum30 sig landed
HEAD67%20 of 51BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%10 of 13
13 of 48
Sig.
strikes
30 of 64
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Curtis firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Michael Tate9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Chris Curtis20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 51BODY45%9 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
Kelvin Gastelum23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 51BODY4%1 of 2LEGS9%2 of 3
20 of 65
Sig.
strikes
23 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:55
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Curtis firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Michael Tate9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chris Curtis37 sig landed
HEAD68%25 of 73BODY30%11 of 14LEGS3%1 of 1
Kelvin Gastelum30 sig landed
HEAD77%23 of 59BODY13%4 of 6LEGS10%3 of 3
37 of 88
Sig.
strikes
30 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:01
Control
0:26
Distance 32Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Curtis firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Michael Tate9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Chris CurtisKelvin Gastelum
Official totals — Chris Curtis first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Michael Tate27–30

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 — 21 scored, Chris Curtis first · unofficial

Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
Ben Davis28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Jake Noecker BetQL28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Cody Merrow MMA Underground28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Scott Fontana New York Post29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Gastelum · 59%29-28 Curtis · 30%30-27 Gastelum · 5%30-27 Curtis · 1%

277 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.

Chris Curtis

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.04 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
2.97 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
35%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Kelvin Gastelum

1.04takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Chris Curtis↓ −15.3pp
open 60.7%close 45.4%
Kelvin Gastelum↑ +15.3pp
open 39.3%close 54.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chris Curtis opened at 60.7% and closed at 45.4% (−15.3pp), with Kelvin Gastelum 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
Chris Curtis-17011060.7%45.4%−15.3pp
Kelvin Gastelum145-13439.3%54.6%+15.3pp
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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