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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson · Roy Nelson vs Jared Rosholt
From the tape · 6 Feb 2016

Roy Nelson vs Jared Rosholt

UFC Fight Night: Hendricks vs Thompson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Roy Nelson beat Jared Rosholt

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

RN
Red corner RoyNelson“Big Country”Country Club · Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
JR
Blue corner JaredRosholtArlington, Texas
Heavyweight3 rounds6 Feb 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Nelson’s 7 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 13 points more striking defence than Nelson.
22-14
Record
14-4
39
Age
−10 yr29
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
73″
Reach
+2″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+815
UFC bouts
7
+83%7/7100% of wins
Finishes
1/617% of wins
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Arlington, Texas
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
Roy Nelson6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 36BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jared Rosholt13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 33BODY15%2 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
6 of 36
Sig.
strikes
13 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Roy Nelson16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 32BODY6%1 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
Jared Rosholt11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 30BODY18%2 of 2LEGS27%3 of 3
16 of 36
Sig.
strikes
11 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Roy Nelson20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 46BODY5%1 of 1LEGS10%2 of 2
Jared Rosholt12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 43BODY8%1 of 2LEGS8%1 of 3
20 of 49
Sig.
strikes
12 of 48
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Roy NelsonJared Rosholt
Official totals — Roy Nelson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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.

Media cards — 15 scored, Roy Nelson first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Severe MMA.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nelson · 58%30-27 Nelson · 22%30-28 Nelson · 8%29-28 Rosholt · 8%

36 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.

Roy Nelson

1.14takedowns / 15 min
1.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
4.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.46 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
41%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Jared Rosholt

1.83takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Roy Nelson↓ −3.2pp
open 54.8%close 51.6%
Jared Rosholt↑ +3.2pp
open 45.2%close 48.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Roy Nelson opened at 54.8% and closed at 51.6% (−3.2pp), with Jared Rosholt 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
Roy Nelson-145-11754.8%51.6%−3.2pp
Jared Rosholt105-10245.2%48.4%+3.2pp
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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