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Events · UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald · Tom Watson vs Stanislav Nedkov
From the tape · 16 Feb 2013

Tom Watson vs Stanislav Nedkov

UFC on FUEL TV: Barao vs McDonald · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Tom Watson beat Stanislav Nedkov

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:42
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Mulhall

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.

TW
Red corner TomWatson“Kong”Jackson-Wink MMA · Southampton
VSOn the tape
SN
Blue corner StanislavNedkov“Stucky”Bushido Bulgaria · Veliko Tarnovo
Middleweight3 rounds16 Feb 2013
The story going in
  • Carries 43 points more takedown defence than Nedkov.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Watson.
17-9
Record
12-2
−1 yr30
Age
31
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
+2″73″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Bushido Bulgaria
Southampton
From
Veliko Tarnovo
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Tom Watson24 sig landed
HEAD29%7 of 22BODY67%16 of 24LEGS4%1 of 1
Stanislav Nedkov28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 43BODY46%13 of 15LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 47
Sig.
strikes
28 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:35
Control
0:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 2Clinch 22Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 14Ground 13
Round 24:42 of action⚡ 1 KD WatsonEnded 4:42
Tom Watson32 sig landed
HEAD75%24 of 44BODY22%7 of 10LEGS3%1 of 1
Stanislav Nedkov11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 19BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
32 of 55
Sig.
strikes
11 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 5
1:48
Control
1:57
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 28Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 2

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

Tom Watson

Round
2
Clock
4:42
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: Kevin Mulhall.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Tom Watson

0.15takedowns / 15 min
0.15 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.77 / 15m
2.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.76 / 15m
7%
ACCURACY
41%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Stanislav Nedkov

2.77takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Tom Watson↑ +1.7pp
open 50.0%close 51.7%
Stanislav Nedkov↓ −1.7pp
open 50.0%close 48.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tom Watson opened at 50.0% and closed at 51.7% (+1.7pp), with Stanislav Nedkov 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
Tom Watson-120-11550.0%51.7%+1.7pp
Stanislav Nedkov-120-10050.0%48.3%−1.7pp
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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