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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Tai Tuivasa vs Louie Sutherland
Red corner TaiTuivasa“Bam Bam”Lions High Performance Centre · Sydney, New South Wales
VSSettled
Blue corner LouieSutherlandGreat Britain Top Team · Tottenham
Heavyweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 6 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Averages 5.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Tuivasa.
15-10
Record
11-6
33
Age
−1 yr32
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1517
UFC bouts
2
Lions High Performance Centre
Gym
Great Britain Top Team
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Tottenham
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Tai Tuivasa
54.3% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledKO/TKO 48%
Vs the market−6.5pp
Market had our pick at61%
The fight
Louie Sutherland
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Tai Tuivasa at 54.3%Louie Sutherland won. The method call missed as well.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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
Tai Tuivasa6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
Louie Sutherland9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS22%2 of 3
6 of 9
Sig.
strikes
9 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:10
Control
3:40
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Tuivasa firstEvan Field9–10Nathan Pintabona9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tai Tuivasa3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Louie Sutherland7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%2 of 2
3 of 4
Sig.
strikes
7 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:00
Control
4:36
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Tuivasa firstEvan Field9–10Nathan Pintabona9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tai Tuivasa4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Louie Sutherland5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%2 of 2
4 of 9
Sig.
strikes
5 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:32
Control
3:29
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Tuivasa firstEvan Field8–10Nathan Pintabona8–10Clemens Werner8–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Rich Mitchell
Tai TuivasaLouie Sutherland
Official totals — Tai Tuivasa first
JudgeTotal
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide26–30
Nathan Pintabona26–30
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide26–30

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 — 5 scored, Tai Tuivasa first · unofficial

Nolan King MMAJunkie.com26–30
Sherdog.com26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Combat Press.com26–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com26–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Sutherland · 62%30-27 Sutherland · 17%29-27 Tuivasa · 5%30-25 Sutherland · 5%29-26 Tuivasa · 2%

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.

Tai Tuivasa

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.95 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
11.79 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
42%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Louie Sutherland

4.95takedowns / 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.

Tai Tuivasa↑ +9.6pp
open 58.0%close 67.6%
Louie Sutherland↓ −9.6pp
open 42.0%close 32.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tai Tuivasa opened at 58.0% and closed at 67.6% (+9.6pp), with Louie Sutherland 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.

Our published call had Tai Tuivasa at 54.3%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 67.6% — our number sat 13.3pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Tai Tuivasa-150-24458.0%67.6%+9.6pp
Louie Sutherland13019442.0%32.4%−9.6pp
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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