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The Clinch

UFC Freedom 250

14 JUN 2026 / Washington, DC, USA

Main event / Lightweight / 5 rounds scheduled Title

Justin Gaethje vs Ilia Topuria

Justin Gaethje, photograph by The White House Justin Gaethje “The Highlight”

10-5-0 entering this bout

Age 37 · 5′11″180.3 cm

Won

Ilia Topuria, photograph by The White House Ilia Topuria “El Matador”

9-0-0 entering this bout

Age 29 · 5′7″170.2 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
32/68
R1
29/58
12/35
R2
44/60
22/36
R3
7/15
25/53
R4
17/29

Technical Knockout to Corner Stoppage Round 4 · 5:00 Referee Marc Goddard

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.
Justin Gaethje Enters 3-1-0 against HYBRID
Ilia Topuria Enters 1-0-0 against STRIKING

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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Justin Gaethje    Ilia Topuria

Bout totals

91
Sig. strikes
97
119
Total strikes
111
79
To the head
55
8
To the body
37
4
To the legs
5
73
At distance
68
15
In the clinch
22
3
On the ground
7
0
Takedowns
1
0
Knockdowns
1
0
Sub. attempts
0
1:32
Control time
2:32

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 Justin Gaethje 32/68 35/71 30/65 2/2 0/1 28/62 4/6 0/0 0/3 0 0:00
Ilia Topuria 29/58 29/58 19/48 7/7 3/3 25/53 4/5 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R2 Justin Gaethje 12/35 13/37 11/32 1/3 0/0 11/32 1/3 0/0 0/1 0 0:00
Ilia Topuria 44/60 52/69 19/30 24/29 1/1 29/39 10/15 5/6 0/0 1 2:02
R3 Justin Gaethje 22/36 31/46 19/32 2/3 1/1 16/30 6/6 0/0 0/0 0 0:47
Ilia Topuria 7/15 10/18 5/12 2/3 0/0 3/10 4/5 0/0 0/1 0 0:05
R4 Justin Gaethje 25/53 40/74 19/46 3/4 3/3 18/43 4/6 3/4 0/1 0 0:45
Ilia Topuria 17/29 20/32 12/22 4/6 1/1 11/23 4/4 2/2 1/2 0 0:25

Who said so

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Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight Yes UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight Yes UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Marc Goddard UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Marc Goddard UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail to Corner Stoppage UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail to Corner Stoppage UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 4 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 4 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 KO/TKO UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method KO/TKO UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Lightweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Lightweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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