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Events · UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier · Uriah Hall vs Rafael Natal
From the tape · 23 May 2015

Uriah Hall vs Rafael Natal

UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rafael Natal beat Uriah Hall

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

UH
Red corner UriahHall“Prime Time”Fortis MMA · Spanish Town
VSOn the tape
RN
Blue corner RafaelNatal“Sapo”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Middleweight3 rounds23 May 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Hall.
18-11
Record
21-9-1
−2 yr30
Age
32
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
+2″79″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+712
+52%2/367% of wins
Finishes
1/714% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Spanish Town
From
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
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
Uriah Hall21 sig landed
HEAD33%7 of 17BODY43%9 of 11LEGS24%5 of 5
Rafael Natal21 sig landed
HEAD24%5 of 30BODY19%4 of 7LEGS57%12 of 12
21 of 33
Sig.
strikes
21 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
0:19
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hall firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Uriah Hall9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 9BODY33%3 of 3LEGS22%2 of 2
Rafael Natal12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 11BODY8%1 of 2LEGS75%9 of 10
9 of 14
Sig.
strikes
12 of 23
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:52
Control
1:59
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hall firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Uriah Hall13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 14BODY23%3 of 7LEGS46%6 of 6
Rafael Natal12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 21BODY8%1 of 5LEGS25%3 of 5
13 of 27
Sig.
strikes
12 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:37
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hall firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10Patricia Morse Jarman10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Uriah HallRafael Natal
Official totals — Uriah Hall first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28

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 — 14 scored, Uriah Hall first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com27–30
Cage Pages.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Nate Wilcox BloodyElbow.com29–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Wrestling Observer29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Hall · 55%29-28 Natal · 22%30-27 Hall · 10%30-28 Hall · 3%

104 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.

Uriah Hall

0.54takedowns / 15 min
0.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.55 / 15m
1.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.50 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
34%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Rafael Natal

2.55takedowns / 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.

Uriah Hall↑ +13.9pp
open 63.8%close 77.6%
Rafael Natal↓ −13.9pp
open 36.2%close 22.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Uriah Hall opened at 63.8% and closed at 77.6% (+13.9pp), with Rafael Natal 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
Uriah Hall-210-41063.8%77.6%+13.9pp
Rafael Natal16033236.2%22.4%−13.9pp
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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