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History · 2015 · UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm · Daniel Kelly vs Steve Montgomery
From the tape · 14 Nov 2015

Daniel Kelly vs Steve Montgomery

UFC 193: Rousey vs Holm · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result

Daniel Kelly beat Steve Montgomery

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · 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.

DK
Red corner DanielKellyResilience Training Centre · Melbourne, Victoria
VSOn the tape
SM
Blue corner SteveMontgomery“The Creepy Weasel”American Top Team · Boca Raton, Florida
Middleweight3 rounds14 Nov 2015
The story going in
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Montgomery.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Kelly.
13-4
Record
9-5
38
Age
−14 yr24
6' 0"
Height
+4″6' 4"
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+23
UFC bouts
1
Resilience Training Centre
Gym
American Top Team
Melbourne, Victoria
From
Boca Raton, Florida
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
Daniel Kelly25 sig landed
HEAD96%24 of 42BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Steve Montgomery7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 29BODY57%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 43
Sig.
strikes
7 of 34
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:33
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Daniel Kelly12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 26BODY17%2 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
Steve Montgomery42 sig landed
HEAD67%28 of 73BODY29%12 of 14LEGS5%2 of 2
12 of 29
Sig.
strikes
42 of 89
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:58
Control
0:02
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 17Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Daniel Kelly26 sig landed
HEAD88%23 of 46BODY8%2 of 2LEGS4%1 of 1
Steve Montgomery28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 57BODY29%8 of 9LEGS4%1 of 2
26 of 49
Sig.
strikes
28 of 68
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:24
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 6Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — Daniel Kelly first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Anthony Dimitriou2.4 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 15 scored, Daniel Kelly first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kelly · 100%

6 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.

Daniel Kelly

1.86takedowns / 15 min
1.86 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
5.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
34%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Steve Montgomery

0.00takedowns / 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.

Daniel Kelly↓ −2.3pp
open 32.1%close 29.8%
Steve Montgomery↑ +2.3pp
open 67.9%close 70.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Daniel Kelly opened at 32.1% and closed at 29.8% (−2.3pp), with Steve Montgomery 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
Daniel Kelly19022532.1%29.8%−2.3pp
Steve Montgomery-270-26567.9%70.2%+2.3pp
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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