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Events · UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez · Nate Diaz vs Josh Thomson
From the tape · 20 Apr 2013

Nate Diaz vs Josh Thomson

UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez · San Jose, California, USA
Result

Josh Thomson beat Nate Diaz

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:44
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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
JT
Blue corner JoshThomson“The Punk”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Lightweight3 rounds20 Apr 2013
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Diaz.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Thomson.
22-13
Record
22-9
−6 yr28
Age
34
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
+5″76″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1417
UFC bouts
3
9/1182% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Stockton, California
From
San Jose, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Nate Diaz10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 40BODY0%0 of 3LEGS10%1 of 1
Josh Thomson15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 20BODY20%3 of 3LEGS33%5 of 10
10 of 44
Sig.
strikes
15 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:25
Control
0:23
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 5Ground 2
Round 23:44 of action⚡ 1 KD Thomson1 sub attemptEnded 3:44
Nate Diaz11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 25BODY18%2 of 4LEGS9%1 of 1
Josh Thomson21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 30BODY19%4 of 6LEGS5%1 of 2
11 of 30
Sig.
strikes
21 of 38
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:30
Control
0:59
0
Knock-
downs
1
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 8Ground 8

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

Josh Thomson

Round
2
Clock
3:44
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: Mike Beltran.

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
1.92 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.92 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
39%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Josh Thomson

1.92takedowns / 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.

Nate Diaz→ no move
open 57.5%close 57.6%
Josh Thomson→ no move
open 42.5%close 42.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Nate Diaz opened at 57.5% and closed at 57.6% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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 Diaz-160-14557.5%57.6%+0.1pp
Josh Thomson12013042.5%42.4%−0.1pp
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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