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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira · Julia Polastri vs Cory McKenna
From the tape · 12 Oct 2024

Julia Polastri vs Cory McKenna

UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Julia Polastri beat Cory McKenna

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 JuliaPolastri“Psycho”CWB Fighter · Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CoryMcKenna“Poppins”Team Alpha Male · Cwmbran
Women's Strawweight3 rounds12 Oct 2024
The story going in
  • Lands 3.3 more significant strikes a minute than McKenna.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Polastri.
  • Carries 18 points more takedown defence than Polastri.
15-6
Record
8-4
26
Age
−1 yr25
5' 2"
Height
+1″5' 3"
+5″63″
Reach
58″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+45
CWB Fighter
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro
From
Cwmbran
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
Julia Polastri40 sig landed
HEAD42%17 of 33BODY45%18 of 19LEGS12%5 of 6
Cory McKenna17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 35BODY18%3 of 5LEGS12%2 of 2
40 of 58
Sig.
strikes
17 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:05
Control
1:38
Distance 21Clinch 19Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Polastri firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Julia Polastri26 sig landed
HEAD38%10 of 25BODY38%10 of 12LEGS23%6 of 6
Cory McKenna15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 39BODY20%3 of 3LEGS13%2 of 2
26 of 43
Sig.
strikes
15 of 44
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:57
Control
0:44
Distance 16Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Polastri firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Julia Polastri22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 34BODY32%7 of 8LEGS9%2 of 2
Cory McKenna8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 38BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
8 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:11
Control
2:58
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Polastri firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Julia PolastriCory McKenna
Official totals — Julia Polastri first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–27

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 — 6 scored, Julia Polastri first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Polastri · 51%29-28 Polastri · 40%29-28 McKenna · 8%

37 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.

Julia Polastri

0.62takedowns / 15 min
0.62 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.00 / 15m
0.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.26 / 15m
80%
ACCURACY
47%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Cory McKenna

2.00takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Julia Polastri↓ −6.5pp
open 57.2%close 50.7%
Cory McKenna↑ +6.5pp
open 42.8%close 49.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Julia Polastri opened at 57.2% and closed at 50.7% (−6.5pp), with Cory McKenna 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
Julia Polastri-148-11657.2%50.7%−6.5pp
Cory McKenna124-10942.8%49.3%+6.5pp
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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