Round 1
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
strikes
29 of 54
1 of 1
Take-
downs
downs
1 of 1
0:23
Control
0:55
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 8
From the tape · 8 Jul 2023
Robert Whittaker vs Dricus Du Plessis
UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result
Dricus Du Plessis beat Robert Whittaker
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.
VSOn the tape
The story going in
- Has finished 5 of 15 UFC wins.
- Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
- 19 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Plessis.
- Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
28-9
Record
24-3
32
Age
−3 yr29
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+3″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1419
UFC bouts
5
5/1533% of wins
Finishes
+47%4/580% of wins
PMA Super Martial Arts
Gym
Team CIT
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Pretoria, Gauteng
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
UFCStats · per round
2 rounds of tape
Round 2⚡ 1 KD PlessisEnded 2:23
9 of 26
Sig.
strikes
strikes
33 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
downs
1
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 20Clinch 8Ground 5
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.
How it ended
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Won inside the distance
Dricus Du Plessis
Round
2
Clock
2:23
Method
KO/TKO
This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Marc Goddard.
Takedowns
Takedowns
The level change — head to head
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Robert Whittaker
0.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.22 / 15m
1.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.35 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
51%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m
82%
TD DEFENCE
34%
Dricus Du Plessis
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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.
Ranked in Middleweight
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.
Robert Whittaker→ no move
open 74.9%close 74.7%
Dricus Du Plessis→ no move
open 25.1%close 25.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)
The line barely moved. Robert Whittaker opened at 74.9% and closed at 74.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
| Corner | Open (US) | Close (US) | Open % | Close % | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Whittaker | -385 | -351 | 74.9% | 74.7% | −0.2pp |
| Dricus Du Plessis | 275 | 279 | 25.1% | 25.3% | +0.2pp |
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% · dated 2023-07-09 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-08-23. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.