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Events · UFC 59: Reality Check · Sean Sherk vs Nick Diaz
From the tape · 15 Apr 2006

Sean Sherk vs Nick Diaz

UFC 59: Reality Check · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Sean Sherk beat Nick Diaz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Marco Lopez

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.

SS
Red corner SeanSherk“The Muscle Shark”The Academy MN · Minneapolis, Minnesota
VSOn the tape
ND
Blue corner NickDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
Welterweight3 rounds15 Apr 2006
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Diaz’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
36-4-1
Record
26-10
32
Age
−10 yr22
5' 6"
Height
+7″6' 1"
67″
Reach
+9″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
5
UFC bouts
+27
2/367% of wins
Finishes
+33%4/4100% of wins
The Academy MN
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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 action
Sean Sherk11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 53BODY9%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Nick Diaz15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 32BODY13%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 54
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 10
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:03
Control
0:17
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Sean Sherk9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 44BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Nick Diaz21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 49BODY14%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 46
Sig.
strikes
21 of 53
1 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:06
Control
0:44
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Sean Sherk19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 49BODY11%2 of 2LEGS21%4 of 4
Nick Diaz21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 44BODY19%4 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
19 of 55
Sig.
strikes
21 of 49
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:37
Control
0:25
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 9Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marco Lopez
Official totals — Sean Sherk first
JudgeTotal
Abe Belardo2.5 avg spread · 65% wide30–27
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide30–27
Alejandro Rochin30–27

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.

Media cards — 2 scored, Sean Sherk first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Diaz · 34%29-28 Sherk · 31%30-27 Sherk · 14%30-27 Diaz · 10%

29 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.

Sean Sherk

4.09takedowns / 15 min
4.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.28 / 15m
8.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
32%
0.40 / 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.

Sean Sherk vs Nick Diaz.

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