Unanimous decision. Every judge scored the bout for Dricus Du Plessis.
Scorecards as recorded by PropSports results · 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 |
| Dricus Du Plessis |
| 0 |
| 20/45 |
| 20/45 |
| 0/0 |
| 0 |
| 0:00 |
| 5 |
| 6 |
| 9 |
| Sean Strickland | 0 | 16/49 | 16/49 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 10 | 5 | 1 |
| R2 | Dricus Du Plessis | 0 | 31/60 | 31/60 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
| Sean Strickland | 0 | 29/54 | 29/54 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 15 | 8 | 6 |
| R3 | Dricus Du Plessis | 0 | 39/79 | 39/79 | 1/1 | 0 | 0:05 | 11 | 14 | 14 |
| Sean Strickland | 0 | 24/47 | 24/47 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 18 | 5 | 1 |
| R4 | Dricus Du Plessis | 0 | 21/66 | 23/68 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 13 | 5 | 3 |
| Sean Strickland | 0 | 28/51 | 28/51 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 23 | 5 | 0 |
| R5 | Dricus Du Plessis | 0 | 36/64 | 36/64 | 0/1 | 0 | 0:00 | 14 | 13 | 9 |
| Sean Strickland | 0 | 31/62 | 31/62 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 24 | 6 | 1 |