Round 1
No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown
No significant strikes landed
0 of 3
Sig.
strikes
strikes
0 of 0
2 of 2
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
4:47
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
VSSettled
The story going in
- Comes in on a 9-fight win streak.
- Has finished 6 of 17 UFC wins.
- Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
- 24 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than Chimaev.
15-1
Record
31-7
−3 yr32
Age
35
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+1524
+31%6/967% of wins
Finishes
6/1735% of wins
Allstars Training Center
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Dubai
From
Anaheim, California
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
Khamzat Chimaev
84.2% confidentLOCK
The fight
Sean Strickland
LOSS✓
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
UFCStats · per round
5 rounds of tape
Round 2
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
strikes
15 of 38
0 of 2
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
3:01
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 3
Round 3
29 of 89
Sig.
strikes
strikes
43 of 100
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 43Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 4
37 of 72
Sig.
strikes
strikes
34 of 86
1 of 2
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:54
Control
0:00
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 5Ended 5:00
22 of 57
Sig.
strikes
strikes
31 of 88
6 of 7
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 1
1:31
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0
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
Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.
Official card
Split Decision
Referee · Herb Dean
Khamzat ChimaevSean Strickland
| Judge | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide | 10–9 | 9–10 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 9–10 | 47–48 |
| Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide | 10–9 | 9–10 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 9–10 | 47–48 |
| Sue Sanidad | 10–9 | 9–10 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 48–47 |
Media cards — 24 scored, Khamzat Chimaev first · unofficial
Jake Noecker Home of Fight46–49
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48
MM AFighting.com47–48
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com47–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com47–48
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com47–48
Erich Richter NY Post47–48
Alex Behunin MMA Mania47–48
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com47–48
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com47–48
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press47–48
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com48–47
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection48–47
Drake Riggs Uncrowned48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com48–47
Chris De Santiago MMA Island48–47
Steve Duncan mma.uno48–47
Combat Press.com48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
MM A Latinoamerica48–47
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News48–47
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–46
Fan vote · unofficial
48-47 Strickland · 64%48-47 Chimaev · 22%49-46 Chimaev · 4%49-46 Strickland · 2%
1,926 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.
Still to come on this page
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The market story coming in this build-out
What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.