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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Barber · Bolaji Oki vs Michael Aswell Jr.
From the tape · 31 May 2025

Bolaji Oki vs Michael Aswell Jr.

UFC Fight Night: Blanchfield vs. Barber · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Bolaji Oki beat Michael Aswell Jr.

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 BolajiOki“The Zulu Warrior”Brussels
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Michael AswellJr.
Lightweight3 rounds31 May 2025
The story going in
  • Carries 18 points more takedown defence than Jr..
  • Lands 1.4 more significant strikes a minute than Oki.
10-4
Record
11-5
29
Age
−5 yr24
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+4″73″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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
Bolaji Oki36 sig landed
HEAD64%23 of 75BODY25%9 of 11LEGS11%4 of 6
Michael Aswell Jr.24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 72BODY12%3 of 4LEGS21%5 of 8
36 of 92
Sig.
strikes
24 of 84
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Oki firstMichael Bell9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Bryan Miner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Bolaji Oki54 sig landed
HEAD57%31 of 77BODY35%19 of 25LEGS7%4 of 6
Michael Aswell Jr.42 sig landed
HEAD83%35 of 87BODY14%6 of 12LEGS2%1 of 1
54 of 108
Sig.
strikes
42 of 100
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 53Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Oki firstMichael Bell10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Bryan Miner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Bolaji Oki46 sig landed
HEAD83%38 of 91BODY17%8 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
Michael Aswell Jr.52 sig landed
HEAD79%41 of 111BODY19%10 of 13LEGS2%1 of 1
46 of 103
Sig.
strikes
52 of 125
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 46Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 51Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Oki firstMichael Bell10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Bryan Miner10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Bolaji OkiMichael Aswell Jr.
Official totals — Bolaji Oki first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28

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 — 12 scored, Bolaji Oki first · unofficial

Combat Press.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Oki · 51%30-27 Oki · 43%29-28 Aswell · 6%

35 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.

Bolaji Oki

1.02takedowns / 15 min
1.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.32 / 15m
1.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.32 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
100%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Michael Aswell Jr.

0.32takedowns / 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.

Bolaji Oki↑ +7.7pp
open 74.4%close 82.1%
Michael Aswell Jr.↓ −7.7pp
open 25.6%close 17.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Bolaji Oki opened at 74.4% and closed at 82.1% (+7.7pp), with Michael Aswell Jr. 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
Bolaji Oki-345-59774.4%82.1%+7.7pp
Michael Aswell Jr.27543425.6%17.9%−7.7pp
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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