Kayla Harrison vs Amanda Nunes
Southpaw · Judo · American Top Team
Harrison’s profileTale of the tape
How they win
Harrison
19 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 6
- Submission
- 8
- Decision
- 5
Nunes
23 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 13
- Submission
- 4
- Decision
- 6
Career averages
How these figures are measured
- Sig. strikes landed per minute
- Significant strikes landed, divided by minutes fought. Career figure.
- Strike accuracy, all strikes
- Every strike landed as a share of every strike thrown, significant or not, over the career. ESPN's own figure. It is not significant-strike accuracy, which runs lower.
- Takedowns per 15 minutes
- Takedowns landed for every 15 minutes fought, the length of a three-round bout. Career figure.
- Takedown accuracy
- Takedowns landed as a share of those attempted. Career figure.
- Submission attempts per 15 minutes
- Submission attempts for every 15 minutes fought. Career figure.
- Finish rate
- Share of the wins on file that ended by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
- Days since last fight
- From the last bout on file to the date of this one.
Records, measurements and career averages are reported by ESPN. The UFC record, last fight, finish rate and win methods are counted by Statwell from the bouts on file for each fighter, which can be fewer than the full professional record.
Matchup snapshot
Harrison
3 measured UFC bouts, 31.7 minutes
Nunes
18 measured UFC bouts, 204.4 minutes
- 4.29136 landed of 219 thrown (62%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 4.54928 landed of 1784 thrown (52%)
- 1.10opponents landed 35 of 103
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 2.44opponents landed 499 of 1226
- 38%6 of 16 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 57%38 of 67 attempts
- 100%conceded 0 of 2 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 81%conceded 6 of 32 faced
- 0scored, 0 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 8scored, 0 suffered
About these statistics
Counted by Statwell from ESPN’s per-bout figures over each fighter’s measured UFC bouts. Small samples move quickly: read each figure with the number of bouts behind it. Nothing here is adjusted for the level of past opponents.
Recent form
Kayla Harrison
3-0 in last 3- W
vs Julianna Peña
Submission · R2 · 4:55
· UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2
Sig. strikes 30 of 54 · Takedowns 2 of 3
- W
vs Ketlen Vieira
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr.
Sig. strikes 55 of 94 · Takedowns 2 of 8
- W
vs Holly Holm
Submission · R2 · 1:47
· UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill
Sig. strikes 51 of 71 · Takedowns 2 of 5
Amanda Nunes
4-1 in last 5- W
vs Irene Aldana
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana
Sig. strikes 142 of 267 · Takedowns 6 of 13
- W
vs Julianna Peña
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 277: Peña vs. Nunes 2
Sig. strikes 85 of 152 · Takedowns 6 of 8 · 3 knockdowns
- L
vs Julianna Peña
Submission · R2 · 3:26
· UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier
Sig. strikes 46 of 99 · Takedowns 1 of 1
- W
vs Megan Anderson
Submission · R1 · 2:03
· UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya
Sig. strikes 18 of 25
- W
vs Felicia Spencer
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 250: Nunes vs. Spencer
Sig. strikes 124 of 214 · Takedowns 6 of 7
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A two-time Olympic judo champion who has controlled every UFC opponent meets a former two-division champion back from retirement. Where does a five-round title fight between them get decided?
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