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Events · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen · Max Holloway vs Arnold Allen
From the tape · 15 Apr 2023

Max Holloway vs Arnold Allen

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Result

Max Holloway beat Arnold Allen

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · Jason Herzog

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 MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ArnoldAllen“Almighty”Felixstowe, Suffolk
Featherweight5 rounds15 Apr 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 19 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 10-fight win streak.
  • 26 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Allen.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
28-9
Record
21-4
31
Age
−2 yr29
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1626
UFC bouts
10
+18%11/1958% of wins
Finishes
4/1040% of wins
Waianae, Hawaii
From
Felixstowe, Suffolk
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
Max Holloway27 sig landed
HEAD48%13 of 46BODY33%9 of 11LEGS19%5 of 5
Arnold Allen11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 21BODY18%2 of 4LEGS45%5 of 8
27 of 62
Sig.
strikes
11 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstTravis Buesking10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Max Holloway25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 30BODY32%8 of 9LEGS24%6 of 10
Arnold Allen19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 26BODY32%6 of 12LEGS16%3 of 4
25 of 49
Sig.
strikes
19 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstTravis Buesking9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway33 sig landed
HEAD61%20 of 37BODY21%7 of 7LEGS18%6 of 7
Arnold Allen14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 39BODY21%3 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
33 of 51
Sig.
strikes
14 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstTravis Buesking10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Max Holloway29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 33BODY34%10 of 12LEGS24%7 of 7
Arnold Allen12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 31BODY42%5 of 6LEGS8%1 of 2
29 of 52
Sig.
strikes
12 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstTravis Buesking10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway33 sig landed
HEAD64%21 of 34BODY24%8 of 9LEGS12%4 of 5
Arnold Allen20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 56BODY10%2 of 9LEGS5%1 of 1
33 of 48
Sig.
strikes
20 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:42
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstTravis Buesking9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Max HollowayArnold Allen
Official totals — Max Holloway first
JudgeTotal
Travis Buesking48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 30 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

Bloody Elbow.com50–45
Mike Heck MMAFighting.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com48–47
Severe MMA.com48–47
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com48–47
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com48–47
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com48–47
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com48–47
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Jake Noecker The Scrap News48–47
Jillian DeCoursey48–47
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News48–47
Scott Fontana New York Post48–47
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com48–47
Dan Urban Couchside Judges48–47
John Pollock POST Wrestling48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com48–47
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com48–47
Nick Baldwin theScore48–47
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com48–47
Alex Behunin MMA Mania48–47
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com48–47
Combat Press.com48–47
Steve Duncan mma.uno48–47
Cody Merrow MMA Underground48–47
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Holloway · 46%49-46 Holloway · 35%48-47 Allen · 8%50-45 Holloway · 8%49-47 Holloway · 1%

580 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.

Max Holloway

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.24 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.07 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
60%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Arnold Allen

1.24takedowns / 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.

Max Holloway↑ +3.6pp
open 57.1%close 60.7%
Arnold Allen↓ −3.6pp
open 42.9%close 39.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Holloway opened at 57.1% and closed at 60.7% (+3.6pp), with Arnold Allen 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
Max Holloway-145-17057.1%60.7%+3.6pp
Arnold Allen12514542.9%39.3%−3.6pp
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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