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Events · UFC on FUEL TV: Struve vs Miocic · Dan Hardy vs Amir Sadollah
From the tape · 29 Sep 2012

Dan Hardy vs Amir Sadollah

UFC on FUEL TV: Struve vs Miocic · Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Result

Dan Hardy beat Amir Sadollah

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

DH
Red corner DanHardy“The Outlaw”Team Rough House · Nottingham, East Midlands
VSOn the tape
AS
Blue corner AmirSadollahSyndicate MMA · Richmond, Virginia
Welterweight3 rounds29 Sep 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Lands 2.2 more significant strikes a minute than Hardy.
25-10
Record
6-5
−2 yr30
Age
32
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
9
+7%2/540% of wins
Finishes
2/633% of wins
Team Rough House
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Nottingham, East Midlands
From
Richmond, Virginia
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
Dan Hardy23 sig landed
HEAD78%18 of 38BODY9%2 of 3LEGS13%3 of 3
Amir Sadollah34 sig landed
HEAD50%17 of 42BODY21%7 of 11LEGS29%10 of 12
23 of 44
Sig.
strikes
34 of 65
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:02
Control
0:26
Distance 16Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hardy firstAaron Chatfield10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Dan Hardy19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 48BODY11%2 of 2LEGS16%3 of 3
Amir Sadollah20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 37BODY15%3 of 5LEGS25%5 of 6
19 of 53
Sig.
strikes
20 of 48
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:14
Control
0:07
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Hardy firstAaron Chatfield10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dan Hardy23 sig landed
HEAD83%19 of 40BODY4%1 of 1LEGS13%3 of 3
Amir Sadollah7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 12BODY43%3 of 5LEGS29%2 of 4
23 of 44
Sig.
strikes
7 of 21
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:35
Control
0:13
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hardy firstAaron Chatfield10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Dan HardyAmir Sadollah
Official totals — Dan Hardy first
JudgeTotal
Aaron Chatfield30–27

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 — 8 scored, Dan Hardy first · unofficial

Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com30–27
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com29–28
Adam Martin TheScore.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Hardy · 73%29-28 Hardy · 27%

11 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.

Dan Hardy

0.73takedowns / 15 min
0.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.57 / 15m
2.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.11 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
27%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Amir Sadollah

0.57takedowns / 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.

Dan Hardy↑ +5.2pp
open 62.8%close 68.0%
Amir Sadollah↓ −5.2pp
open 37.2%close 32.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dan Hardy opened at 62.8% and closed at 68.0% (+5.2pp), with Amir Sadollah 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
Dan Hardy-195-23062.8%68.0%+5.2pp
Amir Sadollah15520537.2%32.0%−5.2pp
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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