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History · 2011 · UFC Live: Sanchez vs Kampmann · Steve Cantwell vs Cyrille Diabate
From the tape · 3 Mar 2011

Steve Cantwell vs Cyrille Diabate

UFC Live: Sanchez vs Kampmann · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Result

Cyrille Diabate beat Steve Cantwell

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

SC
Red corner SteveCantwell“The Robot”One Kick's Gym · Pahrump, Nevada
VSOn the tape
CD
Blue corner CyrilleDiabate“The Snake”Snake Team · Le Celle St. Clous, Haut de Seine
Light Heavyweight3 rounds3 Mar 2011
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 37 points more accurate striking than Cantwell.
  • Carries 27 points more takedown defence than Diabate.
7-6
Record
19-10-1
−13 yr24
Age
37
6' 2"
Height
+4″6' 6"
75″
Reach
+6″81″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+13
UFC bouts
2
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
One Kick's Gym
Gym
Snake Team
Pahrump, Nevada
From
Le Celle St. Clous, Haut de Seine
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Diabate
Steve Cantwell7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 21BODY29%2 of 4LEGS43%3 of 4
Cyrille Diabate34 sig landed
HEAD56%19 of 29BODY24%8 of 9LEGS21%7 of 8
7 of 29
Sig.
strikes
34 of 46
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:24
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Cantwell firstGeorge Conley9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Steve Cantwell5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 20BODY20%1 of 2LEGS40%2 of 2
Cyrille Diabate54 sig landed
HEAD63%34 of 52BODY24%13 of 14LEGS13%7 of 7
5 of 24
Sig.
strikes
54 of 73
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:01
Control
1:25
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 4Ground 8
Judges · this round · Cantwell firstGeorge Conley9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Steve Cantwell16 sig landed
HEAD12%2 of 31BODY62%10 of 17LEGS25%4 of 4
Cyrille Diabate58 sig landed
HEAD64%37 of 55BODY16%9 of 10LEGS21%12 of 14
16 of 52
Sig.
strikes
58 of 79
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 55Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cantwell firstGeorge Conley9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Steve CantwellCyrille Diabate
Official totals — Steve Cantwell first
JudgeTotal
George Conley27–30

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Diabaté · 40%30-26 Diabaté · 40%30-25 Diabaté · 20%

5 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.

Steve Cantwell

0.65takedowns / 15 min
0.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.17 / 15m
2.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.41 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
83%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Cyrille Diabate

1.17takedowns / 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.

Steve Cantwell↑ +12.2pp
open 44.9%close 57.1%
Cyrille Diabate↓ −12.2pp
open 55.1%close 42.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Steve Cantwell opened at 44.9% and closed at 57.1% (+12.2pp), with Cyrille Diabate 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
Steve Cantwell110-14544.9%57.1%+12.2pp
Cyrille Diabate-14012555.1%42.9%−12.2pp
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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