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Events · UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes · Alexander Volkanovski vs Diego Lopes
From the tape · 12 Apr 2025

Alexander Volkanovski vs Diego Lopes

UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes · Miami, Florida, USA
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Diego Lopes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Featherweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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 AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DiegoLopesLobo Gym MMA · Manaus, Amazonas
Featherweight Title5 rounds12 Apr 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
28-4
Record
28-8
36
Age
−6 yr30
5' 6"
Height
+5″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1016
UFC bouts
6
5/1338% of wins
Finishes
+22%3/560% of wins
Windang, New South Wales
From
Manaus, Amazonas
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Alexander Volkanovski27 sig landed
HEAD78%21 of 34BODY7%2 of 4LEGS15%4 of 6
Diego Lopes8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 16BODY12%1 of 2LEGS25%2 of 4
27 of 44
Sig.
strikes
8 of 22
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:58
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Lopes
Alexander Volkanovski24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 42BODY0%0 of 3LEGS25%6 of 7
Diego Lopes16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 32BODY6%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 52
Sig.
strikes
16 of 33
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:20
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Alexander Volkanovski25 sig landed
HEAD84%21 of 38BODY4%1 of 2LEGS12%3 of 5
Diego Lopes9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 33BODY11%1 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
25 of 45
Sig.
strikes
9 of 37
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Alexander Volkanovski39 sig landed
HEAD92%36 of 53BODY5%2 of 2LEGS3%1 of 2
Diego Lopes16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 37BODY12%2 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
39 of 57
Sig.
strikes
16 of 43
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alexander Volkanovski43 sig landed
HEAD93%40 of 58BODY7%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Diego Lopes14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 53BODY14%2 of 2LEGS21%3 of 4
43 of 61
Sig.
strikes
14 of 59
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 40Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkanovski firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Alexander VolkanovskiDiego Lopes
Official totals — Alexander Volkanovski first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide49–46

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 — 22 scored, Alexander Volkanovski first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno49–46
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com49–46
John Pollock POST Wrestling49–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–46
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection49–46
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com49–46
Phil Murphy ESPN49–46
Scott Fontana New York Post49–46
Sheehan Sherdog.com49–46
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com49–46
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press49–46
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated49–46
Jake Noecker Home of Fight49–46
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News49–46
Combat Press.com49–46
Mathis Desjardins Cageside Press48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Volkanovski · 50%48-47 Volkanovski · 24%50-45 Volkanovski · 14%48-47 Lopes · 7%49-47 Volkanovski · 1%

838 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.

Alexander Volkanovski

1.63takedowns / 15 min
1.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.88 / 15m
4.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.76 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Diego Lopes

0.88takedowns / 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.

Alexander Volkanovski↑ +3.9pp
open 54.3%close 58.1%
Diego Lopes↓ −3.9pp
open 45.7%close 41.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexander Volkanovski opened at 54.3% and closed at 58.1% (+3.9pp), with Diego Lopes 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
Alexander Volkanovski-130-15654.3%58.1%+3.9pp
Diego Lopes11012845.7%41.9%−3.9pp
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% · dated 2025-04-13 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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