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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Luque vs. Dos Anjos · Cub Swanson vs Hakeem Dawodu
From the tape · 12 Aug 2023

Cub Swanson vs Hakeem Dawodu

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

Cub Swanson beat Hakeem Dawodu

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightCo-MainReferee · 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 CubSwansonUFC Gym Costa Mesa · Palm Springs, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner HakeemDawodu“Mean”Calgary, Alberta
Featherweight3 rounds12 Aug 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 13 UFC wins.
  • 22 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Dawodu.
31-14
Record
13-4-1
39
Age
−7 yr32
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1322
UFC bouts
9
+29%6/1346% of wins
Finishes
1/617% of wins
Palm Springs, California
From
Calgary, Alberta
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
Cub Swanson23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 25BODY35%8 of 10LEGS17%4 of 7
Hakeem Dawodu29 sig landed
HEAD31%9 of 28BODY28%8 of 9LEGS41%12 of 19
23 of 42
Sig.
strikes
29 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstSal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Cub Swanson28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 42BODY29%8 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
Hakeem Dawodu29 sig landed
HEAD45%13 of 33BODY34%10 of 13LEGS21%6 of 9
28 of 51
Sig.
strikes
29 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
2:20
Distance 18Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstSal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cub Swanson26 sig landed
HEAD42%11 of 45BODY42%11 of 13LEGS15%4 of 5
Hakeem Dawodu37 sig landed
HEAD51%19 of 43BODY30%11 of 15LEGS19%7 of 7
26 of 63
Sig.
strikes
37 of 65
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:50
Distance 18Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson 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 · Jason Herzog
Cub SwansonHakeem Dawodu
Official totals — Cub Swanson 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 — 13 scored, Cub Swanson first · unofficial

Combat Press.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AMania.com28–29
Jake Noecker The Scrap News28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Dawodu · 52%29-28 Swanson · 29%30-27 Dawodu · 13%30-27 Swanson · 3%30-28 Dawodu · 1%

398 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.

Cub Swanson

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
50%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Hakeem Dawodu

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

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Cub Swanson↓ −0.9pp
open 31.8%close 30.9%
Hakeem Dawodu↑ +0.9pp
open 68.2%close 69.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cub Swanson opened at 31.8% and closed at 30.9% (−0.9pp), with Hakeem Dawodu 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
Cub Swanson20020831.8%30.9%−0.9pp
Hakeem Dawodu-250-26668.2%69.1%+0.9pp
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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