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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — Jared Cannonier first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colon2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
David Sutherland28–29

Full round-by-round cards are pending a source refresh. The decisions corpus we read currently ends at 2026-05-16, so this bout has the judges’ totals but not their individual rounds yet. Nothing here is estimated to fill the gap — when the scrape is re-run, the grid appears.

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.

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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.

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