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Events · UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2 · Nick Catone vs Tom Watson
From the tape · 1 Feb 2014

Nick Catone vs Tom Watson

UFC 169: Barao vs Faber 2 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Nick Catone beat Tom Watson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

NC
Red corner NickCatone“The Jersey Devil”Nick Catone MMA & Fitness · Englewood, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
TW
Blue corner TomWatson“Kong”Jackson-Wink MMA · Southampton
Middleweight3 rounds1 Feb 2014
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Catone.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Watson.
10-4
Record
17-9
32
Age
−1 yr31
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+47
UFC bouts
3
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Nick Catone MMA & Fitness
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Englewood, New Jersey
From
Southampton
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
Nick Catone16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 17BODY6%1 of 3LEGS62%10 of 10
Tom Watson11 sig landed
HEAD9%1 of 26BODY27%3 of 6LEGS64%7 of 7
16 of 30
Sig.
strikes
11 of 39
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:23
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Catone firstMichelle Agustin10–9Tony Tamburrino9–10Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nick Catone7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS43%3 of 3
Tom Watson17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 34BODY12%2 of 4LEGS41%7 of 8
7 of 26
Sig.
strikes
17 of 46
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:23
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Catone firstMichelle Agustin10–9Tony Tamburrino10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nick Catone8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
Tom Watson22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 46BODY0%0 of 5LEGS50%11 of 13
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
22 of 64
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:24
Control
0:04
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Catone firstMichelle Agustin10–9Tony Tamburrino10–9Cardo Urso9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Nick CatoneTom Watson
Official totals — Nick Catone first
JudgeTotal
Michelle Agustin30–27
Tony Tamburrino29–28
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 11 scored, Nick Catone first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com30–27
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Thomas Myers MMAMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Watson · 35%29-28 Catone · 31%30-27 Watson · 17%30-27 Catone · 15%30-28 Watson · 2%

48 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.

Nick Catone

3.71takedowns / 15 min
3.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.15 / 15m
8.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.14 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
7%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Tom Watson

0.15takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Nick Catone↑ +5.5pp
open 40.8%close 46.3%
Tom Watson↓ −5.5pp
open 59.2%close 53.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nick Catone opened at 40.8% and closed at 46.3% (+5.5pp), with Tom Watson 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
Nick Catone13010740.8%46.3%+5.5pp
Tom Watson-170-12759.2%53.7%−5.5pp
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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