Adesanya vs Romero

Who won Adesanya vs Romero?

Israel Adesanya beat Yoel Romero by unanimous decision in their 5 round contest during the main event of UFC 248, on Saturday 7th March 2020 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

The scorecards were announced in favor of the winner Israel Adesanya.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Middleweight division, which meant the weight limit was 185 pounds (13.2 stone or 83.9 KG).

This contest was for the UFC middleweight championship.

Adesanya vs Romero stats

Israel Adesanya stepped into the octagon with an undefeated record of 18 wins, zero losses and 0 draws, 14 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.

Yoel Romero made his way to the cage with a record of 13 wins, 4 losses and 0 draws, 11 of those wins coming by knock out.

Israel Adesanya's UFC record stood at 13-3-0, while Yoel Romero's came in at 9-4-0.

The stats suggested Romero had a slight advantage in power over Adesanya, with a 85% knock out percentage over Adesanya's 78%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested that Adesanya and Romero would have been pretty equal, both with a 0% submission rate.

Israel Adesanya was the younger man by 12 years, at 34 years old.

Adesanya had a height advantage of 4 inches over Romero. That also extended to a 6-inch reach advantage.

Adesanya was arguably the more experienced fighter, having had 1 more fights, and made his debut in 2012, 2 years and 3 months later than Romero, whose first professional fight was in 2009. He had fought 8 more professional rounds, 76 to Romero's 68.

Adesanya vs Romero form

Israel Adesanya had beaten 3 of his last 5 opponents.

In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had lost to Alex Pereira at UFC 281 on 12th November 2022 by knockout in the 5th round in their UFC Middleweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden, New York City, United States.

Previous to that, he had won against Jared Cannonier at UFC 276 on 2nd July 2022 by unanimous decision in their UFC Middleweight championship fight at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas.

Going into that contest, he had beaten Robert Whittaker at UFC 271 on 12th February 2022 by unanimous decision in their UFC Middleweight championship fight at Toyota Center, Houston.

Before that, he had defeated Marvin Vettori at UFC 263 on 12th June 2021 by unanimous decision in their UFC Middleweight championship fight at Gila River Arena, Glendale.

He had been beaten by Jan Blachowicz at UFC 259 on 6th March 2021 by unanimous decision in their UFC Light Heavyweight championship fight at UFC APEX, Las Vegas.

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Adesanya's last 5 fights had come over a period of 3 years, 1 month and 12 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 7 months and 15 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 25 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 5 rounds on average.

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