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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape · Kennedy Nzechukwu vs Marcus Buchecha
From the tape · 13 Dec 2025

Kennedy Nzechukwu vs Marcus Buchecha

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

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain 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 KennedyNzechukwu“African Savage”Fortis MMA · Dallas, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarcusBuchecha
Heavyweight3 rounds13 Dec 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Nzechukwu.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Buchecha.
14-7-1
Record
5-3-1
−2 yr33
Age
35
+3″6' 5"
Height
6' 2"
+6″83″
Reach
77″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1314
UFC bouts
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Kennedy Nzechukwu9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 16BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Marcus Buchecha2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY100%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
2 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 9
0:38
Control
2:22
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Kennedy Nzechukwu7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 15BODY14%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Marcus Buchecha25 sig landed
HEAD92%23 of 33BODY8%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
25 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:10
Control
3:39
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 23
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kennedy Nzechukwu8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Marcus Buchecha0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

8 of 12
Sig.
strikes
0 of 0
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:49
Control
0:19
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — unassigned
JudgeTotal
Judge 128–28
Judge 228–28
Judge 328–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

The record does not say which fighter each of these totals belongs to, so the judges are shown unnamed and the scores unassigned. We would rather print less than attribute a card to the wrong man.

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.

Kennedy Nzechukwu

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.02 / 15m
1.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
12.62 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
16%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Marcus Buchecha

2.02takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Kennedy Nzechukwu↓ −11.3pp
open 64.3%close 53.0%
Marcus Buchecha↑ +11.3pp
open 35.7%close 47.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kennedy Nzechukwu opened at 64.3% and closed at 53.0% (−11.3pp), with Marcus Buchecha 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
Kennedy Nzechukwu-200-12664.3%53.0%−11.3pp
Marcus Buchecha17010235.7%47.0%+11.3pp
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 2025-12-14 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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