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History · 2021 · UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori
From the tape · 12 Jun 2021

Israel Adesanya vs Marvin Vettori

UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Israel Adesanya beat Marvin Vettori

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Middleweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner IsraelAdesanya“The Last Stylebender”City Kickboxing · Born in Lagos, Nigeria · Fights out of Auckland, New Zealand
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarvinVettori“The Italian Dream”American Top Team · Born in Trento, Italy · Fights out of Mezzocorona, Trentino, Italy
Middleweight Title5 rounds12 Jun 2021At the time: Middleweight champion vs #3 · rankings of 7 June 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
24-6
Record
19-11-1
31
Age
−4 yr27
+4″6' 4"
Height
6' 0"
+6″80″
Reach
74″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
10
UFC bouts
10
+16%4/944% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
American Top Team
Lagos, Nigeria
Born in
Trento, Italy
Auckland, New Zealand
Fights out of
Mezzocorona, Trentino, Italy
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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.

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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Israel Adesanya18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 15BODY11%2 of 5LEGS61%11 of 12
Marvin Vettori11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 23BODY27%3 of 3LEGS27%3 of 3
18 of 32
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:08
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Flores10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Israel Adesanya28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 36BODY14%4 of 4LEGS32%9 of 9
Marvin Vettori16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 46BODY6%1 of 1LEGS12%2 of 3
28 of 49
Sig.
strikes
16 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:59
Distance 20Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Flores10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Israel Adesanya19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 22BODY11%2 of 5LEGS37%7 of 8
Marvin Vettori6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 31BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 35
Sig.
strikes
6 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:32
Control
1:18
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Flores10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Israel Adesanya20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 27BODY10%2 of 3LEGS40%8 of 8
Marvin Vettori16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 36BODY12%2 of 3LEGS19%3 of 3
20 of 38
Sig.
strikes
16 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:04
Control
1:31
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Flores10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Israel Adesanya11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 18BODY9%1 of 3LEGS55%6 of 6
Marvin Vettori9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS11%1 of 1
11 of 27
Sig.
strikes
9 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
1:59
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Adesanya firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Flores10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Israel AdesanyaMarvin Vettori
Official totals — Israel Adesanya first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide50–45
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
Chris Flores1.9 avg spread · 43% wide50–45

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 — 19 scored, Israel Adesanya first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–45
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com50–45
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Nick Baldwin theScore50–45
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com50–45
John Pollock POST Wrestling50–45
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges50–45
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press50–45
Phil Murphy ESPN50–45
Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–45
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com50–45
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Adesanya · 59%49-46 Adesanya · 19%48-47 Adesanya · 8%48-47 Vettori · 4%50-44 Adesanya · 2%

515 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.

Israel Adesanya

0.05takedowns / 15 min
0.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.34 / 15m
0.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.19 / 15m
9%
ACCURACY
42%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Marvin Vettori

1.34takedowns / 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

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Israel Adesanya→ no move
open 67.8%close 68.2%
Marvin Vettori→ no move
open 32.2%close 31.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Israel Adesanya opened at 67.8% and closed at 68.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Israel Adesanya-235-24767.8%68.2%+0.4pp
Marvin Vettori20020132.2%31.8%−0.4pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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