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History · 2014 · UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic · Rafael Dos Anjos vs Nate Diaz
From the tape · 13 Dec 2014

Rafael Dos Anjos vs Nate Diaz

UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

Rafael Dos Anjos beat Nate Diaz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Jason Herzog

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 Rafael DosAnjosRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
ND
Blue corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
Lightweight3 rounds13 Dec 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 10 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Anjos.
32-17
Record
22-13
30
Age
−1 yr29
5' 8"
Height
+4″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+6″76″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
16
UFC bouts
+319
5/1145% of wins
Finishes
+38%10/1283% of wins
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
From
Stockton, 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
Rafael Dos Anjos25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 32BODY8%2 of 5LEGS40%10 of 12
Nate Diaz9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 55BODY11%1 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
25 of 49
Sig.
strikes
9 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:41
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos30 sig landed
HEAD43%13 of 23BODY10%3 of 4LEGS47%14 of 15
Nate Diaz4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
30 of 42
Sig.
strikes
4 of 39
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:44
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstSal D'Amato10–8Marcos Rosales10–8Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafael Dos Anjos22 sig landed
HEAD91%20 of 26BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%2 of 2
Nate Diaz0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 4 thrown

22 of 28
Sig.
strikes
0 of 4
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:22
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 20
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Rafael Dos AnjosNate Diaz
Official totals — Rafael Dos Anjos first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–26
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–26
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide30–27

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.

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 dos Anjos · 30%30-25 dos Anjos · 28%30-24 dos Anjos · 18%30-27 dos Anjos · 13%29-28 Diaz · 3%

119 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.

Rafael Dos Anjos

1.95takedowns / 15 min
1.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.05 / 15m
5.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.50 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
30%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 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.

Rafael Dos Anjos↑ +9.4pp
open 62.1%close 71.5%
Nate Diaz↓ −9.4pp
open 37.9%close 28.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Dos Anjos opened at 62.1% and closed at 71.5% (+9.4pp), with Nate Diaz 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
Rafael Dos Anjos-190-27562.1%71.5%+9.4pp
Nate Diaz15024237.9%28.5%−9.4pp
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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