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The Clinch

UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2

21 OCT 2023 / Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Co-main / Middleweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Khamzat Chimaev vs Kamaru Usman

Khamzat Chimaev, photograph by MMAnytt Khamzat Chimaev “Borz”

6-0-0 entering this bout

Age 29 · 6′2″188 cm

Won

Kamaru Usman, photograph by MMAnytt Kamaru Usman “The Nigerian Nightmare”

15-2-0 entering this bout

Age 36 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
16/17
R1
3/3
9/20
R2
11/18
13/33
R3
22/45

Decision (Majority) Round 3 · 5:00 Referee Jason Herzog

The cards

Judge Khamzat Chimaev Kamaru Usman
Derek Cleary 29 27
David Lethaby 28 28
Vito Paolillo 29 27

Totals for the bout. No source on file publishes a round-by-round card.

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Khamzat Chimaev Enters 2-0-0 against GRAPPLING
Kamaru Usman Enters 5-0-0 against GRAPPLING

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Khamzat Chimaev    Kamaru Usman

Bout totals

38
Sig. strikes
36
107
Total strikes
58
27
To the head
27
3
To the body
6
8
To the legs
3
22
At distance
33
0
In the clinch
1
16
On the ground
2
4
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
1
Sub. attempts
0
7:16
Control time
0:00

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Khamzat Chimaev 16/17 61/66 15/16 1/1 0/0 1/1 0/0 15/16 2/7 0 4:35
Kamaru Usman 3/3 5/7 2/2 1/1 0/0 1/1 1/1 1/1 0/0 0 0:00
R2 Khamzat Chimaev 9/20 12/23 3/10 2/6 4/4 9/20 0/0 0/0 1/1 0 0:41
Kamaru Usman 11/18 12/19 5/9 3/5 3/4 11/18 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R3 Khamzat Chimaev 13/33 34/54 9/27 0/2 4/4 12/32 0/0 1/1 1/4 0 2:00
Kamaru Usman 22/45 41/66 20/41 2/4 0/0 21/44 0/0 1/1 0/1 0 0:00

Who said so

Every field on this page is a claim made by a source, kept with the source attached. A lower rank is a source trusted further.

Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight No UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight No UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Jason Herzog UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Jason Herzog UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Derek Cleary 27 - 29. David Lethaby 28 - 28. Vito Paolillo 27 - 29. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Derek Cleary 27 - 29. David Lethaby 28 - 28. Vito Paolillo 27 - 29. UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 3 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 3 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Decision - Majority UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Majority UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Middleweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Middleweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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