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Events · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie · Anthony Smith vs Ryan Spann
From the tape · 26 Aug 2023

Anthony Smith vs Ryan Spann

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie · Kallang, Singapore
Result

Anthony Smith beat Ryan Spann

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Mark Craig

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 AnthonySmith“Lionheart”Factory X · Omaha, Nebraska
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RyanSpann“Superman”Fortis MMA · Beaumont, Texas
Light Heavyweight3 rounds26 Aug 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 10 of 11 UFC wins.
38-22
Record
24-11
35
Age
−3 yr32
6' 4"
Height
+1″6' 5"
76″
Reach
+3″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+919
UFC bouts
10
+19%10/1191% of wins
Finishes
5/771% of wins
Factory X
Gym
Fortis MMA
Omaha, Nebraska
From
Beaumont, Texas
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
Anthony Smith24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 25BODY4%1 of 1LEGS58%14 of 16
Ryan Spann10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 32BODY40%4 of 8LEGS10%1 of 1
24 of 42
Sig.
strikes
10 of 41
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:45
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Smith firstMark Collett10–9Luke Hill10–9Vito Paolillo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Smith22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 22BODY18%4 of 4LEGS36%8 of 10
Ryan Spann22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 52BODY23%5 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
22 of 36
Sig.
strikes
22 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
1:19
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 9
Judges · this round · Smith firstMark Collett9–10Luke Hill9–10Vito Paolillo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anthony Smith45 sig landed
HEAD56%25 of 45BODY16%7 of 10LEGS29%13 of 14
Ryan Spann27 sig landed
HEAD67%18 of 74BODY19%5 of 8LEGS15%4 of 4
45 of 69
Sig.
strikes
27 of 86
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 45Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Smith firstMark Collett10–9Luke Hill10–9Vito Paolillo9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Mark Craig
Anthony SmithRyan Spann
Official totals — Anthony Smith first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Luke Hill29–28
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide28–29

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, Anthony Smith first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
J. L. Kirven Sherdog.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Dan Urban Couchside Judges28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Cody Merrow MMA Underground28–29
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com27–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Smith · 50%29-28 Spann · 40%29-27 Spann · 4%

402 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.

Anthony Smith

0.44takedowns / 15 min
0.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.21 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.56 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
34%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Ryan Spann

1.21takedowns / 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.

Anthony Smith↑ +0.8pp
open 45.1%close 45.9%
Ryan Spann↓ −0.8pp
open 54.9%close 54.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Smith opened at 45.1% and closed at 45.9% (+0.8pp), with Ryan Spann 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
Anthony Smith11010745.1%45.9%+0.8pp
Ryan Spann-138-13254.9%54.1%−0.8pp
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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