Santos vs Ivanov

Who won Santos vs Ivanov?

Junior dos Santos beat Blagoy Ivanov by unanimous decision in their 5 round contest during the main event of UFC Fight Night 133, on Saturday 14th July 2018 at CenturyLink Arena in Boise.

The scorecards were announced in favor of the winner Junior dos Santos.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Heavyweight division, which meant the weight limit was 265 pounds (18.9 stone or 120.2 KG).

Santos vs Ivanov stats

Junior dos Santos stepped into the octagon with a record of 18 wins, 5 losses and 0 draws, 13 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 1 by submission.

Blagoy Ivanov made his way to the cage with a record of 16 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, 6 of those wins coming by knock out and 6 by submission.

Junior dos Santos' UFC record stood at 15-8-0, while Blagoy Ivanov's came in at 3-5-0.

The stats suggested Santos had a massive power advantage over Ivanov, boasting a 72% knock out percentage over Ivanov's 38%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Ivanov had a massive advantage over Santos, boasting a 38% submission rate over Santos' 6%.

Junior dos Santos was the older man by 3 years, at 40 years old.

Santos had a height advantage of 5 inches over Ivanov. That also extended to a 4-inch reach advantage.

Santos was the more experienced professional fighter, having had 6 more fights, and made his debut in 2006, 1 year and 2 months earlier than Ivanov, whose first professional fight was in 2007. He had fought 1 more professional rounds, 65 to Ivanov's 64.

Santos vs Ivanov form

Junior dos Santos had stopped 2 of his last 5 opponents.

In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had lost to Jairzinho Rozenstruik at UFC 252 on 15th August 2020 by knockout in the 2nd round at UFC APEX, Las Vegas, United States.

Previous to that, he had been beaten by Curtis Blaydes at UFC on ESPN+ 24 on 25th January 2020 by knockout in the 2nd round at PNC Arena, Raleigh.

Going into that contest, he had been defeated by Francis NGannou at UFC on ESPN 3 on 29th June 2019 by knockout in the 1st round at Target Center, Minneapolis.

Before that, he had won against Derrick Lewis at UFC on ESPN+ 4 on 9th March 2019 by knockout in the 2nd round at INTRUST Bank Arena, Wichita.

He had beaten Tai Tuivasa at UFC Fight Night 142 on 1st December 2018 by knockout in the 2nd round at Adelaide Entertainment Center, Adelaide, South Australia.

Activity check

Santos' last 5 fights had come over a period of 5 years, 4 months and 17 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year and 28 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 9 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 1.8 rounds on average.

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