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Events · UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer · Nate Diaz vs Josh Neer
From the tape · 17 Sep 2008

Nate Diaz vs Josh Neer

UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Result

Nate Diaz beat Josh Neer

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMainReferee · 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.

ND
Red corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
VSOn the tape
JN
Blue corner JoshNeer“The Dentist”Cesar Gracie Fight Team · Des Moines, Iowa
Lightweight3 rounds17 Sep 2008
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Diaz’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
22-13
Record
36-16-1
−2 yr23
Age
25
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+26
+67%4/4100% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Stockton, California
From
Des Moines, Iowa
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 action1 sub attempt
Nate Diaz21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 19BODY38%8 of 10LEGS14%3 of 3
Josh Neer8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 10BODY12%1 of 2LEGS25%2 of 2
21 of 32
Sig.
strikes
8 of 14
1 of 4
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:55
Control
2:10
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 16Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 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 action2 sub attempts
Nate Diaz8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 11BODY25%2 of 3LEGS25%2 of 2
Josh Neer11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 21BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
8 of 16
Sig.
strikes
11 of 23
1 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:30
Control
2:59
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 2Clinch 5Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 6Ground 5
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
Nate Diaz11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 17BODY27%3 of 6LEGS9%1 of 1
Josh Neer7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 9BODY14%1 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 24
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 2
4:01
Control
0:26
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 1
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

Decision - Split

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Official totals — Nate Diaz first
JudgeTotal
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28

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.

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.

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.21 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
34%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Josh Neer

1.09takedowns / 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.

Nate Diaz↑ +7.7pp
open 59.2%close 66.9%
Josh Neer↓ −7.7pp
open 40.8%close 33.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nate Diaz opened at 59.2% and closed at 66.9% (+7.7pp), with Josh Neer 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
Nate Diaz-170-23059.2%66.9%+7.7pp
Josh Neer13019040.8%33.1%−7.7pp
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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