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Events · UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem · Nate Diaz vs Donald Cerrone
From the tape · 30 Dec 2011

Nate Diaz vs Donald Cerrone

UFC 141: Lesnar vs Overeem · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nate Diaz beat Donald Cerrone

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

ND
Red corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DonaldCerrone“Cowboy”BMF Ranch · Broomfield, Colorado
Lightweight3 rounds30 Dec 2011
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Cerrone.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
22-13
Record
36-17
−2 yr26
Age
28
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
+3″76″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1014
UFC bouts
4
+14%8/989% of wins
Finishes
3/475% of wins
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
BMF Ranch
Stockton, California
From
Broomfield, Colorado
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
Nate Diaz82 sig landed
HEAD87%71 of 110BODY13%11 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
Donald Cerrone35 sig landed
HEAD54%19 of 44BODY31%11 of 11LEGS14%5 of 5
82 of 122
Sig.
strikes
35 of 60
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:52
Control
0:00
Distance 78Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nate Diaz69 sig landed
HEAD87%60 of 99BODY13%9 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
Donald Cerrone28 sig landed
HEAD57%16 of 35BODY14%4 of 6LEGS29%8 of 10
69 of 112
Sig.
strikes
28 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:05
Distance 65Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nate Diaz87 sig landed
HEAD78%68 of 106BODY20%17 of 20LEGS2%2 of 2
Donald Cerrone33 sig landed
HEAD64%21 of 57BODY24%8 of 9LEGS12%4 of 5
87 of 128
Sig.
strikes
33 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:00
Distance 85Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Nate DiazDonald Cerrone
Official totals — Nate Diaz first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

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 — 7 scored, Nate Diaz first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Fight Metric.com30–27
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Diaz · 50%30-26 Diaz · 31%29-28 Diaz · 9%29-27 Diaz · 3%30-28 Diaz · 2%

119 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.

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.16 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.52 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
33%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Donald Cerrone

1.16takedowns / 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↑ +2.9pp
open 24.8%close 27.7%
Donald Cerrone↓ −2.9pp
open 75.2%close 72.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nate Diaz opened at 24.8% and closed at 27.7% (+2.9pp), with Donald Cerrone 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 Diaz28025524.8%27.7%+2.9pp
Donald Cerrone-400-28075.2%72.3%−2.9pp
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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