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Events · UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs Guillard · Drew Fickett vs Keita Nakamura
From the tape · 5 Apr 2007

Drew Fickett vs Keita Nakamura

UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs Guillard · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Drew Fickett beat Keita Nakamura

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

DF
Red corner DrewFickett“The Master”Team Scrub · Tucson, Arizona
VSOn the tape
KN
Blue corner KeitaNakamura“K-Taro”United Gym Tokyo · Katsushika, Tokyo
Welterweight3 rounds5 Apr 2007
The story going in
  • Every one of Fickett’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 33 points more takedown defence than Fickett.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Nakamura.
42-21
Record
34-10-2
27
Age
−5 yr22
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+56
UFC bouts
1
Team Scrub
Gym
United Gym Tokyo
Tucson, Arizona
From
Katsushika, Tokyo
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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
Drew Fickett30 sig landed
HEAD43%13 of 29BODY53%16 of 19LEGS3%1 of 1
Keita Nakamura7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 15BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
30 of 49
Sig.
strikes
7 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:38
Control
2:02
Distance 2Clinch 21Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 3
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
Drew Fickett27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 46BODY37%10 of 13LEGS19%5 of 5
Keita Nakamura20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 63BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%1 of 1
27 of 64
Sig.
strikes
20 of 64
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:52
Control
0:42
Distance 14Clinch 12Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Drew Fickett22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 50BODY50%11 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Keita Nakamura5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
22 of 61
Sig.
strikes
5 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:13
Control
0:17
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 21
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 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 · Steve Mazzagatti
Official totals — Drew Fickett first
JudgeTotal
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–27
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–26

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 — 1 scored, Drew Fickett first · unofficial

Sherdog.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Fickett · 67%

3 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.

Drew Fickett

1.30takedowns / 15 min
1.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.65 / 15m
3.71 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.44 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
48%
2.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Keita Nakamura

1.65takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Drew Fickett vs Keita Nakamura.

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