Unanimous decision. Every judge scored the bout for Lyoto Machida.
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 |
| Lyoto Machida |
| 0 |
| 24/31 |
| 40/47 |
| 1/2 |
| 0 |
| 3:06 |
| 8 |
| 10 |
| 6 |
| Kazuhiro Nakamura | 0 | 8/12 | 15/19 | 0/3 | 0 | 0:09 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| R2 | Lyoto Machida | 0 | 21/30 | 40/49 | 0/0 | 1 | 3:18 | 17 | 4 | 0 |
| Kazuhiro Nakamura | 0 | 3/8 | 6/12 | 1/4 | 0 | 0:54 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| R3 | Lyoto Machida | 0 | 25/28 | 54/57 | 1/1 | 0 | 2:46 | 11 | 12 | 2 |
| Kazuhiro Nakamura | 0 | 4/11 | 6/13 | 1/3 | 0 | 0:43 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
