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Events · UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes · Mohammed Usman vs Junior Tafa
From the tape · 22 Apr 2023

Mohammed Usman vs Junior Tafa

UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Mohammed Usman beat Junior Tafa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

MU
Red corner MohammedUsman“The Motor”Kill Cliff FC · Auchi
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JuniorTafa“The Juggernaut”NTG Fight & Fitness · Avondale
Heavyweight3 rounds22 Apr 2023
12-4
Record
7-6
34
Age
−8 yr26
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
+4″79″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
NTG Fight & Fitness
Auchi
From
Avondale
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
Mohammed Usman1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Junior Tafa8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 22BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 12
Sig.
strikes
8 of 24
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:26
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Mohammed Usman4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 11BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Junior Tafa6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 16BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 12
Sig.
strikes
6 of 18
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:09
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mohammed Usman2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Junior Tafa8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 17BODY12%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 5
Sig.
strikes
8 of 19
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:28
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Usman firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9Rick Winter10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Mohammed UsmanJunior Tafa
Official totals — Mohammed Usman first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide29–28

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 — 17 scored, Mohammed Usman first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Tafa · 53%29-28 Usman · 31%30-27 Tafa · 10%29-27 Tafa · 3%30-27 Usman · 2%

114 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.

Mohammed Usman

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
4.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
14%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Junior Tafa

0.00takedowns / 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.

Mohammed Usman↓ −4.5pp
open 52.2%close 47.6%
Junior Tafa↑ +4.5pp
open 47.8%close 52.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mohammed Usman opened at 52.2% and closed at 47.6% (−4.5pp), with Junior Tafa 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
Mohammed Usman-120-10052.2%47.6%−4.5pp
Junior Tafa100-12247.8%52.4%+4.5pp
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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