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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos · AJ Dobson vs Tafon Nchukwi
From the tape · 12 Aug 2023

AJ Dobson vs Tafon Nchukwi

UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

AJ Dobson beat Tafon Nchukwi

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

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Red corner AJDobson
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TafonNchukwi“Da Don”Team Lloyd Irvin · Bamenda
Middleweight3 rounds12 Aug 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Dobson.
7-3
Record
6-4
31
Age
−3 yr28
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
76″
Reach
+1″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+35
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
AJ Dobson34 sig landed
HEAD18%6 of 31BODY29%10 of 15LEGS53%18 of 19
Tafon Nchukwi24 sig landed
HEAD17%4 of 20BODY29%7 of 10LEGS54%13 of 15
34 of 65
Sig.
strikes
24 of 45
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dobson firstSal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
AJ Dobson28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 31BODY7%2 of 3LEGS50%14 of 17
Tafon Nchukwi26 sig landed
HEAD23%6 of 25BODY19%5 of 5LEGS58%15 of 18
28 of 51
Sig.
strikes
26 of 48
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dobson firstSal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
AJ Dobson5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS80%4 of 5
Tafon Nchukwi3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS67%2 of 4
5 of 18
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:57
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dobson firstSal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9

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 · Herb Dean
AJ DobsonTafon Nchukwi
Official totals — AJ Dobson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% 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 — 12 scored, AJ Dobson first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jake Noecker The Scrap News30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Dobson · 67%29-28 Dobson · 22%29-28 Nchukwi · 11%

27 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.

AJ Dobson

1.67takedowns / 15 min
1.67 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.76 / 15m
2.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.33 / 15m
75%
ACCURACY
57%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Tafon Nchukwi

0.76takedowns / 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.

AJ Dobsonclose only
no opening line on recordclose 45.1%
Tafon Nchukwiclose only
no opening line on recordclose 54.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: AJ Dobson 45.1%, Tafon Nchukwi 54.9%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
AJ Dobson11145.1%
Tafon Nchukwi-150-13754.9%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for A.J. Dobson, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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