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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale · Diego Sanchez vs Clay Guida
From the tape · 20 Jun 2009

Diego Sanchez vs Clay Guida

The Ultimate Fighter: United States vs. United Kingdom Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Diego Sanchez beat Clay Guida

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.

DS
Red corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
CG
Blue corner ClayGuida“The Carpenter”Team Alpha Male · Round Lake, Illinois
Lightweight3 rounds20 Jun 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
31-13
Record
38-22
27
Age
27
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+311
UFC bouts
8
+16%5/956% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Round Lake, Illinois
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⚡ 1 KD Sanchez
Diego Sanchez40 sig landed
HEAD90%36 of 76BODY8%3 of 4LEGS2%1 of 1
Clay Guida10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 28BODY20%2 of 3LEGS10%1 of 2
40 of 81
Sig.
strikes
10 of 33
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 4
1:05
Control
1:41
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 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 action1 sub attempt
Diego Sanchez17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 32BODY0%0 landedLEGS6%1 of 1
Clay Guida5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 19BODY20%1 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
17 of 33
Sig.
strikes
5 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:27
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 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 action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Diego Sanchez11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 30BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Clay Guida14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 38BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%4 of 4
11 of 30
Sig.
strikes
14 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
1:49
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 2
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 — Diego Sanchez first
JudgeTotal
Patricia Morse-Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–27
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% 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.

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.10 / 15m
6.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.86 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
35%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Clay Guida

3.10takedowns / 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.

Diego Sanchez↑ +5.5pp
open 70.2%close 75.7%
Clay Guida↓ −5.5pp
open 29.8%close 24.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Sanchez opened at 70.2% and closed at 75.7% (+5.5pp), with Clay Guida 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-280-33570.2%75.7%+5.5pp
Clay Guida22030529.8%24.3%−5.5pp
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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