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History · 2010 · UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Nick Catone vs Jesse Forbes
From the tape · 11 Jan 2010

Nick Catone vs Jesse Forbes

UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Result

Nick Catone beat Jesse Forbes

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Rick McCoy

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.

NC
Red corner NickCatone“The Jersey Devil”Nick Catone MMA & Fitness · Englewood, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
JF
Blue corner JesseForbes“Kid Hercules”Power MMA Team · Tempe, Arizona
Middleweight3 rounds11 Jan 2010
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 20 points more accurate striking than Forbes.
10-4
Record
15-5
28
Age
−3 yr25
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+23
UFC bouts
1
Nick Catone MMA & Fitness
Gym
Power MMA Team
Englewood, New Jersey
From
Tempe, Arizona
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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
Nick Catone12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 27BODY8%1 of 3LEGS33%4 of 5
Jesse Forbes12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 55BODY42%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 35
Sig.
strikes
12 of 61
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:16
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 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 action
Nick Catone13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 30BODY54%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Jesse Forbes11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 45BODY45%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 37
Sig.
strikes
11 of 50
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:33
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 6Ground 0
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
Nick Catone7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 26BODY14%1 of 1LEGS57%4 of 4
Jesse Forbes9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 41BODY44%4 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 31
Sig.
strikes
9 of 49
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:32
Control
0:19
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 0
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 · Rick McCoy
Official totals — Nick Catone first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Clark Walters28–29
Doug Crosby2.3 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.

Nick Catone

3.71takedowns / 15 min
3.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.79 / 15m
8.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.39 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
75%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Jesse Forbes

1.79takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Nick Catone↑ +2.3pp
open 64.0%close 66.4%
Jesse Forbes↓ −2.3pp
open 36.0%close 33.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nick Catone opened at 64.0% and closed at 66.4% (+2.3pp), with Jesse Forbes 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
Nick Catone-205-22564.0%66.4%+2.3pp
Jesse Forbes16518536.0%33.6%−2.3pp
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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