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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot · Chidi Njokuani vs Rhys McKee
From the tape · 30 Mar 2024

Chidi Njokuani vs Rhys McKee

UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Fiorot · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Result

Chidi Njokuani beat Rhys McKee

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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 ChidiNjokuani“Bang Bang”Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RhysMcKee“Skeletor”Next Generation I.M.M.A. · Ballymena
Welterweight3 rounds30 Mar 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 21 points more accurate striking than McKee.
26-12
Record
14-7-1
35
Age
−7 yr28
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+2″80″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+25
UFC bouts
3
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Ballymena
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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
Chidi Njokuani23 sig landed
HEAD4%1 of 7BODY22%5 of 7LEGS74%17 of 20
Rhys McKee16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 37BODY0%0 of 2LEGS25%4 of 4
23 of 34
Sig.
strikes
16 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:17
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Munah Querido9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Chidi Njokuani15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 6BODY27%4 of 8LEGS40%6 of 7
Rhys McKee9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 17BODY44%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 21
Sig.
strikes
9 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:32
Control
2:37
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Munah Querido9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chidi Njokuani26 sig landed
HEAD42%11 of 27BODY35%9 of 10LEGS23%6 of 6
Rhys McKee5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 26BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
26 of 43
Sig.
strikes
5 of 29
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:21
Control
1:47
Distance 18Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Munah Querido10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Chidi NjokuaniRhys McKee
Official totals — Chidi Njokuani first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Munah Querido28–29

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 — 13 scored, Chidi Njokuani first · unofficial

MM AMania.com30–27
Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Combat Press.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Njokuani · 51%30-27 Njokuani · 37%29-28 McKee · 6%30-27 McKee · 1%

71 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.

Chidi Njokuani

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
n/a
n/a
ACCURACY
n/a
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Rhys McKee

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

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Chidi Njokuani↑ +4.4pp
open 64.5%close 68.9%
Rhys McKee↓ −4.4pp
open 35.5%close 31.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chidi Njokuani opened at 64.5% and closed at 68.9% (+4.4pp), with Rhys McKee 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
Chidi Njokuani-205-27464.5%68.9%+4.4pp
Rhys McKee17020235.5%31.1%−4.4pp
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 2024-03-31 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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