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History · 2011 · UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz · Ramsey Nijem vs Danny Downes
From the tape · 29 Oct 2011

Ramsey Nijem vs Danny Downes

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

Ramsey Nijem beat Danny Downes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

RN
Red corner RamseyNijemSkrap Pack · Orem, Utah
VSOn the tape
DD
Blue corner DannyDownes
Lightweight3 rounds29 Oct 2011
9-6
Record
8-3
−2 yr23
Age
25
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
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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 action1 sub attempt
Ramsey Nijem29 sig landed
HEAD72%21 of 27BODY14%4 of 4LEGS14%4 of 4
Danny Downes4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 14BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
29 of 35
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:01
Control
0:03
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nijem firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9Mark Smith10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Ramsey Nijem14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS7%1 of 1
Danny Downes2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 5BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 20
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:11
Control
0:28
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nijem firstAdalaide Byrd10–8Patricia Morse Jarman10–9Mark Smith10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Ramsey Nijem16 sig landed
HEAD100%16 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Danny Downes0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 6 thrown

16 of 22
Sig.
strikes
0 of 6
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:30
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nijem firstAdalaide Byrd10–8Patricia Morse Jarman10–8Mark Smith10–9

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 · Josh Rosenthal
Ramsey NijemDanny Downes
Official totals — Ramsey Nijem first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–25
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–26
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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.

Media cards — 6 scored, Ramsey Nijem first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–26
MM AWeekly.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Nijem · 60%30-27 Nijem · 40%

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.

Ramsey Nijem

5.32takedowns / 15 min
5.32 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
8.58 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
62%
ACCURACY
n/a
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Danny Downes

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Ramsey Nijem↓ −0.6pp
open 65.6%close 64.9%
Danny Downes↑ +0.6pp
open 34.4%close 35.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ramsey Nijem opened at 65.6% and closed at 64.9% (−0.6pp), with Danny Downes 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
Ramsey Nijem-225-19565.6%64.9%−0.6pp
Danny Downes17518034.4%35.1%+0.6pp
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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