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Events · UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2 · Diego Ferreira vs Beneil Dariush
From the tape · 25 Oct 2014

Diego Ferreira vs Beneil Dariush

UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Beneil Dariush beat Diego Ferreira

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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 DiegoFerreiraFortis MMA · Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BeneilDariushKings MMA · Yorba Linda, California
Lightweight3 rounds25 Oct 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 25 points more takedown defence than Ferreira.
20-7
Record
23-8-1
29
Age
−4 yr25
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+13
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
Kings MMA
Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
From
Yorba Linda, 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Diego Ferreira10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 36BODY50%5 of 9LEGS20%2 of 2
Beneil Dariush9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 19BODY22%2 of 5LEGS22%2 of 5
10 of 47
Sig.
strikes
9 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:21
Control
1:01
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ferreira firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Vinicius Lins9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Diego Ferreira1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 13BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Beneil Dariush11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 13BODY18%2 of 2LEGS27%3 of 3
1 of 14
Sig.
strikes
11 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:08
Control
2:55
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Ferreira firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Vinicius Lins9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Diego Ferreira10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 22BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Beneil Dariush12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 16BODY17%2 of 3LEGS17%2 of 2
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
12 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:08
Control
3:57
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 7
Judges · this round · Ferreira firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Vinicius Lins9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Diego FerreiraBeneil Dariush
Official totals — Diego Ferreira first
JudgeTotal
Marco Aurelio Borges27–30
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide27–30
Vinicius Lins27–30

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 — 15 scored, Diego Ferreira first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Cage Pages.com27–30
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com27–30
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–30
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Dariush · 83%30-27 Ferreira · 4%30-29 Ferreira · 4%30-28 Dariush · 4%29-28 Dariush · 4%

23 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.

Diego Ferreira

0.82takedowns / 15 min
0.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.21 / 15m
2.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.82 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
38%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Beneil Dariush

2.21takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Diego Ferreira vs Beneil Dariush.

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