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Events · UFC 101: Declaration · Kurt Pellegrino vs Josh Neer
From the tape · 8 Aug 2009

Kurt Pellegrino vs Josh Neer

UFC 101: Declaration · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Kurt Pellegrino beat Josh Neer

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

KP
Red corner KurtPellegrino“Batman”Pellegrino MMA · Point Pleasant, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
JN
Blue corner JoshNeer“The Dentist”Cesar Gracie Fight Team · Des Moines, Iowa
Lightweight3 rounds8 Aug 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
16-7
Record
36-16-1
30
Age
−4 yr26
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
8
+30%4/580% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Pellegrino MMA
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Point Pleasant, New Jersey
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
Kurt Pellegrino7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 14BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Josh Neer2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
2 of 5
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:25
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
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
Kurt Pellegrino8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 19BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Josh Neer7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%2 of 3
8 of 21
Sig.
strikes
7 of 22
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:47
Control
0:13
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
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
Kurt Pellegrino6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 9BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Josh Neer15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 18BODY13%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
15 of 21
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:05
Control
0:20
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 7
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 · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Kurt Pellegrino first
JudgeTotal
Brad Duruttya30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Eric Colon2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27

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 — 4 scored, Kurt Pellegrino first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pellegrino · 75%29-28 Pellegrino · 25%

4 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.

Kurt Pellegrino

2.90takedowns / 15 min
2.90 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
5.37 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.21 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
34%
0.80 / 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 (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.

Kurt Pellegrino→ no move
open 34.4%close 34.5%
Josh Neer→ no move
open 65.6%close 65.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Kurt Pellegrino opened at 34.4% and closed at 34.5% 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
Kurt Pellegrino17518534.4%34.5%+0.0pp
Josh Neer-225-20065.6%65.5%−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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