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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida · Karl Williams vs Chase Sherman
From the tape · 13 May 2023

Karl Williams vs Chase Sherman

UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Almeida · Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Result

Karl Williams beat Chase Sherman

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain 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 KarlWilliamsXtreme Couture · St. Thomas
VSOn the tape
CS
Blue corner ChaseSherman“The Vanilla Gorilla”Jackson-Wink MMA · D'Iberville, Mississippi
Heavyweight3 rounds13 May 2023
The story going in
  • Averages 4.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Sherman.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Williams.
10-2
Record
16-12
33
Age
33
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
+1″79″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+1314
0/10% of wins
Finishes
3/475% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
St. Thomas
From
D'Iberville, Mississippi
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
Karl Williams19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 38BODY11%2 of 2LEGS16%3 of 3
Chase Sherman11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 32BODY0%0 of 2LEGS45%5 of 5
19 of 43
Sig.
strikes
11 of 39
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:41
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Williams firstBobby Harris10–9Andrew Hopper Jr.10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Karl Williams23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 56BODY9%2 of 2LEGS17%4 of 5
Chase Sherman13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 47BODY8%1 of 2LEGS54%7 of 7
23 of 63
Sig.
strikes
13 of 56
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Williams firstBobby Harris10–9Andrew Hopper Jr.10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Karl Williams28 sig landed
HEAD79%22 of 53BODY7%2 of 2LEGS14%4 of 4
Chase Sherman30 sig landed
HEAD50%15 of 45BODY30%9 of 11LEGS20%6 of 7
28 of 59
Sig.
strikes
30 of 63
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
0:12
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Williams firstBobby Harris10–9Andrew Hopper Jr.10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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
Karl WilliamsChase Sherman
Official totals — Karl Williams first
JudgeTotal
Bobby Harris30–27
Andrew Hopper Jr.30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 14 scored, Karl Williams first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com29–28
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sherman · 44%29-28 Williams · 32%30-27 Williams · 22%30-27 Sherman · 2%

50 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.

Karl Williams

4.20takedowns / 15 min
4.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.09 / 15m
8.75 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.18 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Chase Sherman

0.09takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Karl Williams↑ +1.7pp
open 75.3%close 77.0%
Chase Sherman↓ −1.7pp
open 24.7%close 23.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Karl Williams opened at 75.3% and closed at 77.0% (+1.7pp), with Chase Sherman 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
Karl Williams-355-42475.3%77.0%+1.7pp
Chase Sherman29031424.7%23.0%−1.7pp
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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