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The Clinch

UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang

23 AUG 2025 / Shanghai, Hebei, China

Co-main / Catch Weight / 5 rounds scheduled

Aljamain Sterling vs Brian Ortega

Aljamain Sterling, photograph by MMAnytt Aljamain Sterling “Funk Master”

16-5-0 entering this bout

Age 36 · 5′7″170.2 cm

Won

Brian Ortega, photograph by MMAnytt Brian Ortega “T-City”

8-4-1 entering this bout

Age 34 · 5′8″172.7 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
27/44
R1
2/28
13/54
R2
9/40
35/52
R3
21/42
25/39
R4
13/37
24/38
R5
10/27

Decision (Unanimous) Round 5 · 5:00 Referee Herb Dean

The cards

Judge Aljamain Sterling Brian Ortega
Ben Cartlidge 50 45
David Lethaby 50 45
Vito Paolillo 50 45

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.
Aljamain Sterling Enters 7-2-0 against GRAPPLING
Brian Ortega Enters 4-1-0 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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Aljamain Sterling    Brian Ortega

Bout totals

124
Sig. strikes
55
153
Total strikes
100
77
To the head
30
21
To the body
20
26
To the legs
5
100
At distance
54
7
In the clinch
0
17
On the ground
1
3
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
0
3:55
Control time
0:08

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 Aljamain Sterling 27/44 27/44 16/32 3/4 8/8 27/44 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
Brian Ortega 2/28 2/28 2/25 0/2 0/1 2/28 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R2 Aljamain Sterling 13/54 13/54 6/44 1/4 6/6 12/53 1/1 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
Brian Ortega 9/40 9/40 5/33 4/6 0/1 9/40 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R3 Aljamain Sterling 35/52 35/52 25/42 2/2 8/8 34/51 1/1 0/0 0/1 0 0:00
Brian Ortega 21/42 21/42 8/27 8/10 5/5 21/42 0/0 0/0 0/1 0 0:00
R4 Aljamain Sterling 25/39 35/49 13/26 9/10 3/3 16/30 3/3 6/6 1/1 0 1:36
Brian Ortega 13/37 29/55 8/29 5/8 0/0 12/36 0/0 1/1 0/0 0 0:02
R5 Aljamain Sterling 24/38 43/63 17/31 6/6 1/1 11/20 2/2 11/16 2/4 0 2:19
Brian Ortega 10/27 39/60 7/24 3/3 0/0 10/27 0/0 0/0 0/1 0 0:06

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 Herb Dean UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Herb Dean UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Ben Cartlidge 45 - 50. David Lethaby 45 - 50. Vito Paolillo 45 - 50. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Ben Cartlidge 45 - 50. David Lethaby 45 - 50. Vito Paolillo 45 - 50. UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 5 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 - Unanimous UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Catch Weight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Catch Weight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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