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History · 2014 · Rory MacDonald vs Tarec Saffiedine
From the tape · 4 Oct 2014

Rory MacDonald vs Tarec Saffiedine

Result

Rory MacDonald beat Tarec Saffiedine

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 5
Clock
1:28
WelterweightMainReferee · 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.

RM
Red corner RoryMacDonald“Red King”Tristar Gym · Kelowna, British Columbia
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner TarecSaffiedine“Sponge”Tristar Gym · Brussels
Welterweight5 rounds4 Oct 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
19-4
Record
16-7
−3 yr25
Age
28
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
+6″76″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+910
UFC bouts
1
3/838% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Tristar Gym
Kelowna, British Columbia
From
Brussels
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rory MacDonald15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 39BODY0%0 of 3LEGS27%4 of 4
Tarec Saffiedine10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 33BODY10%1 of 1LEGS70%7 of 7
15 of 46
Sig.
strikes
10 of 41
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Rory MacDonald21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 38BODY19%4 of 6LEGS14%3 of 3
Tarec Saffiedine23 sig landed
HEAD57%13 of 54BODY4%1 of 4LEGS39%9 of 12
21 of 47
Sig.
strikes
23 of 70
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 31:28 of action⚡ 1 KD MacDonaldEnded 1:28
Rory MacDonald11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 17BODY9%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Tarec Saffiedine9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS67%6 of 8
11 of 18
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0

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

Rory MacDonald

Round
3
Clock
1:28
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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Rory MacDonald

1.77takedowns / 15 min
1.77 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.52 / 15m
3.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.44 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
36%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Tarec Saffiedine

0.52takedowns / 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.

Rory MacDonald↑ +6.1pp
open 73.1%close 79.2%
Tarec Saffiedine↓ −6.1pp
open 26.9%close 20.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rory MacDonald opened at 73.1% and closed at 79.2% (+6.1pp), with Tarec Saffiedine 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
Rory MacDonald-350-43073.1%79.2%+6.1pp
Tarec Saffiedine25037026.9%20.8%−6.1pp
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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