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Events · UFC 49: Unfinished Business · Karo Parisyan vs Nick Diaz
From the tape · 21 Aug 2004

Karo Parisyan vs Nick Diaz

UFC 49: Unfinished Business · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Karo Parisyan beat Nick Diaz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

KP
Red corner KaroParisyan“The Heat”North Hollywood, California
VSOn the tape
ND
Blue corner NickDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
Welterweight3 rounds21 Aug 2004
The story going in
  • Averages 4.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Diaz.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 3.2 more significant strikes a minute than Parisyan.
24-11
Record
26-10
21
Age
21
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+4″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
2
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
North Hollywood, California
From
Stockton, California
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Karo Parisyan8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 29BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Nick Diaz11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 22BODY9%1 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 30
Sig.
strikes
11 of 26
2 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:18
Control
0:16
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Karo Parisyan11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 24BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
Nick Diaz23 sig landed
HEAD57%13 of 45BODY39%9 of 12LEGS4%1 of 1
11 of 26
Sig.
strikes
23 of 58
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:32
Control
1:02
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 5Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Karo Parisyan8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
Nick Diaz3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 16BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
3 of 18
5 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:02
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Karo Parisyan first
JudgeTotal
Dalby Shirley28–29
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Diaz · 49%29-28 Parisyan · 27%30-27 Diaz · 7%30-27 Parisyan · 7%30-29 Diaz · 2%

41 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Karo Parisyan

5.27takedowns / 15 min
5.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.28 / 15m
8.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
59%
ACCURACY
32%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Nick Diaz

1.28takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Karo Parisyan vs Nick Diaz.

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