Unanimous decision. Every judge scored the bout for Kamaru Usman.
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 |
| Kamaru Usman |
| 0 |
| 17/43 |
| 22/48 |
| 1/1 |
| 0 |
| 0:22 |
| 12 |
| 4 |
| 1 |
| Colby Covington | 0 | 13/47 | 13/47 | 0/1 | 0 | 0:00 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
| R2 | Kamaru Usman | 2 | 36/71 | 50/86 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:15 | 19 | 16 | 1 |
| Colby Covington | 0 | 19/47 | 19/48 | 0/2 | 0 | 0:41 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| R3 | Kamaru Usman | 0 | 23/58 | 30/71 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:16 | 18 | 5 | 0 |
| Colby Covington | 0 | 21/56 | 23/59 | 0/4 | 0 | 0:05 | 15 | 6 | 0 |
| R4 | Kamaru Usman | 0 | 23/70 | 24/71 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 17 | 6 | 0 |
| Colby Covington | 0 | 33/77 | 38/83 | 0/2 | 0 | 0:25 | 28 | 5 | 0 |
| R5 | Kamaru Usman | 0 | 24/51 | 32/60 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:23 | 14 | 10 | 0 |
| Colby Covington | 0 | 21/54 | 26/61 | 0/2 | 0 | 0:43 | 18 | 3 | 0 |
