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History · 2013 · UFC 158: St-Pierre vs Diaz · Georges St-Pierre vs Nick Diaz
From the tape · 16 Mar 2013

Georges St-Pierre vs Nick Diaz

UFC 158: St-Pierre vs Diaz · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Georges St-Pierre beat Nick Diaz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

GS
Red corner GeorgesSt-Pierre“Rush”Tristar Gym · St. Isidore, Quebec
VSOn the tape
ND
Blue corner NickDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
Welterweight Title5 rounds16 Mar 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 10-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than St-Pierre.
26-2
Record
26-10
31
Age
−2 yr29
5' 11"
Height
+2″6' 1"
76″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+719
UFC bouts
12
7/1741% of wins
Finishes
+45%6/786% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
St. Isidore, Quebec
From
Stockton, California
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 18BODY8%1 of 1LEGS17%2 of 2
Nick Diaz1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
12 of 21
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:50
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Therien10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 18BODY22%4 of 5LEGS17%3 of 6
Nick Diaz3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 15BODY33%1 of 3LEGS0%0 of 2
18 of 29
Sig.
strikes
3 of 20
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:17
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Therien10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre28 sig landed
HEAD75%21 of 44BODY11%3 of 6LEGS14%4 of 4
Nick Diaz15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 38BODY7%1 of 2LEGS13%2 of 2
28 of 54
Sig.
strikes
15 of 42
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:29
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Therien10–9
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Georges St-Pierre24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 24BODY17%4 of 4LEGS12%3 of 3
Nick Diaz11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 24BODY82%9 of 13LEGS0%0 of 1
24 of 31
Sig.
strikes
11 of 38
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:12
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Therien10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Georges St-Pierre23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 19BODY43%10 of 11LEGS9%2 of 2
Nick Diaz11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 18BODY73%8 of 11LEGS9%1 of 3
23 of 32
Sig.
strikes
11 of 32
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:56
Control
0:36
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Therien10–9

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 · Yves Lavigne
Georges St-PierreNick Diaz
Official totals — Georges St-Pierre first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide50–45
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45

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 — 10 scored, Georges St-Pierre first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com50–45
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com50–45
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com50–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–45
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com50–45
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca50–45
Fight Metric.com50–45
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com50–45

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 St-Pierre · 53%49-46 St-Pierre · 10%50-44 St-Pierre · 9%48-47 Diaz · 5%50-43 St-Pierre · 4%

286 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.

Georges St-Pierre

4.16takedowns / 15 min
4.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.28 / 15m
5.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
74%
ACCURACY
32%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Nick Diaz

1.28takedowns / 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.

Georges St-Pierre↑ +4.8pp
open 76.9%close 81.7%
Nick Diaz↓ −4.8pp
open 23.1%close 18.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Georges St-Pierre opened at 76.9% and closed at 81.7% (+4.8pp), with Nick Diaz 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
Georges St-Pierre-430-53576.9%81.7%+4.8pp
Nick Diaz31043123.1%18.3%−4.8pp
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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