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Events · UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Borralho · Dennis Buzukja vs Francis Marshall
From the tape · 24 Aug 2024

Dennis Buzukja vs Francis Marshall

UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Borralho · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Francis Marshall beat Dennis Buzukja

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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 DennisBuzukja“The Great”Longo-Weidman MMA · New York, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FrancisMarshall“Fire”American Top Team · Jersey City, New Jersey
Lightweight3 rounds24 Aug 2024
The story going in
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Marshall.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Buzukja.
12-7
Record
10-3
26
Age
−1 yr25
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Longo-Weidman MMA
Gym
American Top Team
New York, New York
From
Jersey City, New Jersey
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
Dennis Buzukja6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 10BODY50%3 of 4LEGS17%1 of 2
Francis Marshall6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 16
Sig.
strikes
6 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:56
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Buzukja firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Marshall
Dennis Buzukja30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 37BODY13%4 of 11LEGS13%4 of 4
Francis Marshall23 sig landed
HEAD91%21 of 53BODY4%1 of 2LEGS4%1 of 1
30 of 52
Sig.
strikes
23 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:01
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Buzukja firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Ben Cartlidge9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dennis Buzukja30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 63BODY23%7 of 12LEGS3%1 of 2
Francis Marshall28 sig landed
HEAD93%26 of 72BODY4%1 of 2LEGS4%1 of 1
30 of 77
Sig.
strikes
28 of 75
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:08
Control
0:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Buzukja firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Ben Cartlidge9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
Dennis BuzukjaFrancis Marshall
Official totals — Dennis Buzukja first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 11 scored, Dennis Buzukja first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Jake Noecker Cageside Press27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Marshall · 60%30-27 Marshall · 31%29-28 Buzukja · 10%

42 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.

Dennis Buzukja

0.62takedowns / 15 min
0.62 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.71 / 15m
2.30 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.77 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
47%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Francis Marshall

2.71takedowns / 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.

Dennis Buzukja↓ −7.1pp
open 44.1%close 36.9%
Francis Marshall↑ +7.1pp
open 55.9%close 63.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dennis Buzukja opened at 44.1% and closed at 36.9% (−7.1pp), with Francis Marshall 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
Dennis Buzukja11415844.1%36.9%−7.1pp
Francis Marshall-146-19655.9%63.1%+7.1pp
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 2024-08-25 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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