This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
History · 2014 · Gunnar Nelson vs Rick Story
From the tape · 4 Oct 2014

Gunnar Nelson vs Rick Story

Result

Rick Story beat Gunnar Nelson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · 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.

Red corner GunnarNelson“Gunni”Reykjavik
VSOn the tape
RS
Blue corner RickStory“The Horror”MMA Lab · Tacoma, Washington
Welterweight5 rounds4 Oct 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Nelson.
19-6-1
Record
19-9
−4 yr26
Age
30
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+1216
+35%3/475% of wins
Finishes
4/1040% of wins
Reykjavik
From
Tacoma, Washington
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
Gunnar Nelson8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 7BODY50%4 of 5LEGS12%1 of 1
Rick Story18 sig landed
HEAD11%2 of 22BODY39%7 of 8LEGS50%9 of 9
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
18 of 39
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:16
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstJim Bergman10–9Mark Collett10–9Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Gunnar Nelson11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 24BODY18%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Rick Story29 sig landed
HEAD34%10 of 42BODY41%12 of 13LEGS24%7 of 7
11 of 26
Sig.
strikes
29 of 62
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstJim Bergman10–9Mark Collett9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Gunnar Nelson8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 16BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Rick Story32 sig landed
HEAD38%12 of 39BODY47%15 of 19LEGS16%5 of 5
8 of 18
Sig.
strikes
32 of 63
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstJim Bergman10–9Mark Collett9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 45:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Story
Gunnar Nelson10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 18BODY20%2 of 4LEGS0%0 of 2
Rick Story41 sig landed
HEAD73%30 of 61BODY15%6 of 10LEGS12%5 of 6
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
41 of 77
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:32
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 4Ground 7
Judges · this round · Nelson firstJim Bergman9–10Mark Collett9–10Paul Sutherland8–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gunnar Nelson16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 22BODY12%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Rick Story48 sig landed
HEAD56%27 of 47BODY38%18 of 23LEGS6%3 of 4
16 of 26
Sig.
strikes
48 of 74
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 45Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstJim Bergman9–10Mark Collett9–10Paul Sutherland9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Gunnar NelsonRick Story
Official totals — Gunnar Nelson first
JudgeTotal
Jim Bergman48–47
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide46–49
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide44–50

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 — 9 scored, Gunnar Nelson first · unofficial

Cage Pages.com45–50
Thomas Myers MMAMania.com45–50
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com45–50
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com46–49
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com46–49
MM AJunkie.com46–49
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com46–49
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com46–49
John Pollock Fight Network47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Story · 37%50-45 Story · 21%50-44 Story · 12%48-47 Story · 7%49-45 Story · 5%

112 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.

Gunnar Nelson

2.00takedowns / 15 min
2.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.53 / 15m
3.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.27 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
48%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Rick Story

2.53takedowns / 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.

Gunnar Nelson↑ +3.6pp
open 73.1%close 76.8%
Rick Story↓ −3.6pp
open 26.9%close 23.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gunnar Nelson opened at 73.1% and closed at 76.8% (+3.6pp), with Rick Story 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
Gunnar Nelson-350-37073.1%76.8%+3.6pp
Rick Story25032026.9%23.2%−3.6pp
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.
← Every fighter on the record