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History · 2008 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale · Diego Sanchez vs Luigi Fioravanti
From the tape · 21 Jun 2008

Diego Sanchez vs Luigi Fioravanti

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Rampage vs Team Forrest Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Diego Sanchez beat Luigi Fioravanti

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
4:07
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

DS
Red corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
LF
Blue corner LuigiFioravantiFlawless MMA · St. Louis, Missouri
Welterweight3 rounds21 Jun 2008
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Sanchez.
31-13
Record
26-15
−1 yr26
Age
27
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+39
UFC bouts
6
4/757% of wins
Finishes
+10%2/367% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Flawless MMA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
St. Louis, Missouri
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Diego Sanchez11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 30BODY27%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Luigi Fioravanti9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 21BODY22%2 of 2LEGS33%3 of 4
11 of 34
Sig.
strikes
9 of 27
0 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:05
Control
0:28
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Sanchez2 sub attempts
Diego Sanchez20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 38BODY20%4 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
Luigi Fioravanti11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 27BODY18%2 of 2LEGS9%1 of 2
20 of 43
Sig.
strikes
11 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:22
Control
0:03
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 8Clinch 6Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Round 34:07 of action⚡ 1 KD SanchezEnded 4:07
Diego Sanchez20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 37BODY5%1 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
Luigi Fioravanti7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 19BODY14%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
20 of 39
Sig.
strikes
7 of 22
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:14
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0

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

Diego Sanchez

Round
3
Clock
4:07
Method
KO/TKO

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: Josh Rosenthal.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.76 / 15m
6.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.97 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
63%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Luigi Fioravanti

3.76takedowns / 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

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.

Diego Sanchez↑ +2.8pp
open 77.9%close 80.6%
Luigi Fioravanti↓ −2.8pp
open 22.1%close 19.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Sanchez opened at 77.9% and closed at 80.6% (+2.8pp), with Luigi Fioravanti moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. 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
Diego Sanchez-450-50077.9%80.6%+2.8pp
Luigi Fioravanti33040022.1%19.4%−2.8pp
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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