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Events · UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit · Roy Nelson vs Fabricio Werdum
From the tape · 4 Feb 2012

Roy Nelson vs Fabricio Werdum

UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Fabricio Werdum beat Roy Nelson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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 RoyNelson“Big Country”Country Club · Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
FW
Blue corner FabricioWerdum“Vai Cavalo”Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Heavyweight3 rounds4 Feb 2012
The story going in
  • Every one of Nelson’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Is 16 points more accurate striking than Nelson.
  • Carries 34 points more takedown defence than Werdum.
22-14
Record
24-9-1
35
Age
−1 yr34
6' 0"
Height
+4″6' 4"
73″
Reach
+4″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+15
UFC bouts
4
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
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
Roy Nelson5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Fabricio Werdum20 sig landed
HEAD30%6 of 19BODY45%9 of 11LEGS25%5 of 6
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
20 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:14
Control
0:55
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 9Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Roy Nelson11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS18%2 of 2
Fabricio Werdum39 sig landed
HEAD44%17 of 27BODY26%10 of 11LEGS31%12 of 12
11 of 37
Sig.
strikes
39 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Roy Nelson10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 18BODY30%3 of 3LEGS10%1 of 2
Fabricio Werdum32 sig landed
HEAD75%24 of 42BODY16%5 of 5LEGS9%3 of 3
10 of 23
Sig.
strikes
32 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:30
Control
0:10
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Official totals — Roy Nelson first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide27–30

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 6 scored, Roy Nelson first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Werdum · 68%30-26 Werdum · 16%30-28 Werdum · 5%30-25 Werdum · 5%

19 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.

Roy Nelson

1.14takedowns / 15 min
1.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.75 / 15m
4.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.65 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
31%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Fabricio Werdum

1.75takedowns / 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.

Roy Nelson↓ −4.9pp
open 45.9%close 41.0%
Fabricio Werdum↑ +4.9pp
open 54.1%close 59.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Roy Nelson opened at 45.9% and closed at 41.0% (−4.9pp), with Fabricio Werdum 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
Roy Nelson10514045.9%41.0%−4.9pp
Fabricio Werdum-135-15054.1%59.0%+4.9pp
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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