Unanimous decision. Every judge scored the bout for Magomed Ankalaev.
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 |
| Magomed Ankalaev |
| 0 |
| 8/23 |
| 8/23 |
| 0/0 |
| 0 |
| 0:00 |
| 3 |
| 4 |
| 1 |
| Thiago Santos | 0 | 10/21 | 10/21 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| R2 | Magomed Ankalaev | 0 | 15/32 | 15/32 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Thiago Santos | 1 | 15/36 | 18/39 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:17 | 7 | 3 | 5 |
| R3 | Magomed Ankalaev | 0 | 19/31 | 19/31 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
| Thiago Santos | 0 | 18/30 | 18/30 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| R4 | Magomed Ankalaev | 0 | 21/48 | 36/63 | 1/1 | 0 | 0:56 | 13 | 8 | 0 |
| Thiago Santos | 0 | 10/32 | 16/38 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| R5 | Magomed Ankalaev | 0 | 15/21 | 36/42 | 0/1 | 0 | 2:39 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| Thiago Santos | 0 | 7/19 | 19/32 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
