Unanimous decision. Every judge scored the bout for Cain Velasquez.
Scorecards as recorded by PropSports round data · source ↗ · fighter attribution derived from the recorded result, not assumed from score order · how this is built
Fight progression reconstructed from verified round-level observations.
Pace is significant strikes landed per minute of observed round time. A round with no recorded observation is left empty rather than drawn as zero.
| Round | Fighter | KD | Sig. str. | Total | TD | Sub | Ctrl | Head | Body | Leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 |
| Cain Velasquez |
| 0 |
| 8/13 |
| 50/66 |
| 4/4 |
| 2 |
| 4:29 |
| 8 |
| 0 |
| 0 |
| Cheick Kongo | 0 | 5/7 | 14/16 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:14 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| R2 | Cain Velasquez | 0 | 12/18 | 94/105 | 2/3 | 0 | 4:13 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| Cheick Kongo | 0 | 9/14 | 14/19 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:25 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| R3 | Cain Velasquez | 0 | 9/22 | 117/149 | 1/3 | 0 | 4:16 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Cheick Kongo | 0 | 7/13 | 14/21 | 1/3 | 0 | 0:12 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
