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History · 2007 · UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs Florian · Nate Diaz vs Junior Assuncao
From the tape · 19 Sep 2007

Nate Diaz vs Junior Assuncao

UFC Fight Night: Thomas vs Florian · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nate Diaz beat Junior Assuncao

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
4:10
LightweightMain 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.

ND
Red corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
VSOn the tape
JA
Blue corner JuniorAssuncaoAscension MMA · Recife, Pernambuco
Lightweight3 rounds19 Sep 2007
The story going in
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Assuncao.
  • Is 17 points more accurate striking than Diaz.
22-13
Record
16-6
−4 yr22
Age
26
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
Ascension MMA
Stockton, California
From
Recife, Pernambuco
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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

1 round of tape

Round 14:10 of action⚡ 1 KD Diaz3 sub attemptsEnded 4:10
Nate Diaz10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%4 of 4
Junior Assuncao7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 8BODY43%3 of 4LEGS29%2 of 2
10 of 11
Sig.
strikes
7 of 14
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:34
Control
2:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 2

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Nate Diaz

Round
1
Clock
4:10
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Steve Mazzagatti.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.43 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.13 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
24%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Junior Assuncao

2.43takedowns / 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

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Nate Diaz→ no move
open 65.1%close 65.1%
Junior Assuncao→ no move
open 34.9%close 34.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Nate Diaz opened at 65.1% and closed at 65.1% once the vig is taken out — a 0.0pp shift across the whole build-up. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Nate Diaz-210-21065.1%65.1%−0.0pp
Junior Assuncao17517534.9%34.9%−0.0pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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