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History · 2010 · UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 · Nate Diaz vs Marcus Davis
From the tape · 28 Aug 2010

Nate Diaz vs Marcus Davis

UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Nate Diaz beat Marcus Davis

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
4:02
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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
MD
Blue corner MarcusDavis“The Irish Hand Grenade”Team Irish · Bangor, Maine
Welterweight3 rounds28 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Davis.
  • Carries 13 points more striking defence than Diaz.
22-13
Record
22-11
−12 yr25
Age
37
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
+6″76″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
10
UFC bouts
+313
+8%6/786% of wins
Finishes
7/978% of wins
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
Team Irish
Stockton, California
From
Bangor, Maine
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 Davis
Nate Diaz37 sig landed
HEAD76%28 of 118BODY8%3 of 6LEGS16%6 of 7
Marcus Davis23 sig landed
HEAD91%21 of 82BODY4%1 of 3LEGS4%1 of 1
37 of 131
Sig.
strikes
23 of 86
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 1
Round 25:00 of action
Nate Diaz29 sig landed
HEAD86%25 of 105BODY7%2 of 4LEGS7%2 of 3
Marcus Davis21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 60BODY19%4 of 7LEGS29%6 of 6
29 of 112
Sig.
strikes
21 of 73
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:50
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 34:02 of action1 sub attemptEnded 4:02
Nate Diaz28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 77BODY14%4 of 6LEGS4%1 of 2
Marcus Davis8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%4 of 5
28 of 85
Sig.
strikes
8 of 44
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:10
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 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

Nate Diaz

Round
3
Clock
4:02
Method
Submission

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: Yves Lavigne.

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
1.60 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.33 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
48%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Marcus Davis

1.60takedowns / 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↑ +2.0pp
open 62.3%close 64.3%
Marcus Davis↓ −2.0pp
open 37.7%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nate Diaz opened at 62.3% and closed at 64.3% (+2.0pp), with Marcus Davis 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-185-19062.3%64.3%+2.0pp
Marcus Davis15517537.7%35.7%−2.0pp
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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