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History · 2011 · UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz · Mirko Filipovic vs Roy Nelson
From the tape · 29 Oct 2011

Mirko Filipovic vs Roy Nelson

UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Roy Nelson beat Mirko Filipovic

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
1:30
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

MF
Red corner MirkoFilipovic“Cro Cop”Cro Cop Top Team · Zagreb
VSOn the tape
RN
Blue corner RoyNelson“Big Country”Country Club · Las Vegas, Nevada
Heavyweight3 rounds29 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Every one of Filipovic’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
35-11-2
Record
22-14
37
Age
−2 yr35
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
73″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+59
UFC bouts
4
4/4100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Cro Cop Top Team
Gym
Country Club
Zagreb
From
Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Mirko Filipovic10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 24BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Roy Nelson13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 35BODY23%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 26
Sig.
strikes
13 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:36
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 5
Round 25:00 of action
Mirko Filipovic19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 27BODY21%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Roy Nelson9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 18BODY11%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 32
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:27
Control
2:23
Distance 4Clinch 15Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 6
Round 31:30 of actionEnded 1:30
Mirko Filipovic1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Roy Nelson10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 16BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 1
Sig.
strikes
10 of 17
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:17
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 7

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

Roy Nelson

Round
3
Clock
1:30
Method
KO/TKO

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: Steve Mazzagatti.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Mirko Filipovic

0.19takedowns / 15 min
0.19 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.14 / 15m
0.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.22 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
27%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Roy Nelson

1.14takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Mirko Filipovic↑ +4.0pp
open 29.8%close 33.7%
Roy Nelson↓ −4.0pp
open 70.2%close 66.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mirko Filipovic opened at 29.8% and closed at 33.7% (+4.0pp), with Roy Nelson 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
Mirko Filipovic22019029.8%33.7%+4.0pp
Roy Nelson-280-21070.2%66.3%−4.0pp
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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