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Events · Du Plessis vs Usman · Jared Cannonier vs Christian Leroy Duncan
Red corner JaredCannonier“The Killa Gorilla”MMA Lab · Anchorage, Alaska
VSSettled
Blue corner Christian LeroyDuncanRange Martial Arts Academy · Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Middleweight3 rounds18 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Duncan.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
18-10
Record
15-2
42
Age
−12 yr30
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
77″
Reach
+2″79″
Switch
Stance
Switch
+1120
UFC bouts
9
7/1164% of wins
Finishes
+8%5/771% of wins
MMA Lab
Gym
Range Martial Arts Academy
Anchorage, Alaska
From
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
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
Christian Leroy Duncan
64.9% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 52%
Vs the market+14.9pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Christian Leroy Duncan
WIN
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Christian Leroy Duncan at 64.9% and Christian Leroy Duncan won. The method call landed too.
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
Jared Cannonier2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Christian Leroy Duncan27 sig landed
HEAD48%13 of 28BODY37%10 of 10LEGS15%4 of 4
2 of 8
Sig.
strikes
27 of 42
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:02
Control
1:09
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 13Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10David Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jared Cannonier10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 20BODY20%2 of 4LEGS10%1 of 1
Christian Leroy Duncan16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 25BODY19%3 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
10 of 25
Sig.
strikes
16 of 31
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:19
Control
0:44
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10David Sutherland10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jared Cannonier3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 10BODY67%2 of 2LEGS33%1 of 1
Christian Leroy Duncan25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 32BODY16%4 of 4LEGS32%8 of 8
3 of 13
Sig.
strikes
25 of 44
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:51
Control
0:23
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cannonier firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10David Sutherland9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Jared CannonierChristian Leroy Duncan
Official totals — Jared Cannonier first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
David Sutherland28–29

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 — 13 scored, Jared Cannonier first · unofficial

Unattributed27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Unattributed27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Unattributed27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
CombatPress.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MMAMania.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Duncan · 60%29-28 Duncan · 29%29-28 Cannonier · 12%

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.

Jared Cannonier

0.54takedowns / 15 min
0.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.33 / 15m
1.35 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.06 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
16%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Christian Leroy Duncan

0.33takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Jared CannonierChristian Leroy DuncanPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Jared Cannonier vs Christian Leroy Duncan — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Jared Cannonier and Christian Leroy Duncan from Jul 07 to Jul 18, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Jared Cannonier moves from 40% to 26% and Christian Leroy Duncan from 60% to 74%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.5%15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%95%Jul 7Jul 10Jul 13Jul 16Jul 18▲ our call: Christian Leroy Duncan (MED)26%74%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Christian Leroy Duncan's implied chance moved up from 60% to 74% (+15.0pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Christian Leroy Duncan at 64.9%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 74.5% — our number sat 9.6pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Jared Cannonier — sportsbook consensus25.7%13.0%37.5%23.8%−2.0pp
Christian Leroy Duncan — sportsbook consensus74.3%62.5%87.0%76.2%+2.0pp
Jared Cannonier — Polymarket40.5%21.5%78.0%25.5%−15.0pp
Christian Leroy Duncan — Polymarket59.5%22.0%78.5%74.5%+15.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,404 snapshots on file · window Jul 07 20:12Jul 18 23:57Z · last capture Jul 18, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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