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History · 2016 · UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz · Diego Sanchez vs Jim Miller
From the tape · 5 Mar 2016

Diego Sanchez vs Jim Miller

UFC 196: McGregor vs Diaz · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Diego Sanchez beat Jim Miller

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

DS
Red corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JimMiller“A-10”Sussex County MMA · Sparta, New Jersey
Lightweight3 rounds5 Mar 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 14 UFC wins.
31-13
Record
39-19
34
Age
−2 yr32
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+122
UFC bouts
21
5/1436% of wins
Finishes
+21%8/1457% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Sussex County MMA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Sparta, New Jersey
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 Sanchez10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 22BODY30%3 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
Jim Miller12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 20BODY25%3 of 5LEGS8%1 of 2
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
12 of 27
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:28
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstLester Griffin10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Diego Sanchez10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 25BODY40%4 of 9LEGS0%0 of 1
Jim Miller24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 29BODY17%4 of 4LEGS17%4 of 4
10 of 35
Sig.
strikes
24 of 37
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:55
Control
0:24
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstLester Griffin9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Diego Sanchez28 sig landed
HEAD79%22 of 54BODY18%5 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
Jim Miller20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 43BODY15%3 of 4LEGS20%4 of 4
28 of 63
Sig.
strikes
20 of 51
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstLester Griffin10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Diego SanchezJim Miller
Official totals — Diego Sanchez first
JudgeTotal
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 21 scored, Diego Sanchez first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com29–28
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Dana Becker FightLine.com29–28
Felipe Freitas mmabrasil.com.br29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sanchez · 83%29-28 Miller · 5%30-27 Sanchez · 2%

42 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 Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.49 / 15m
6.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.31 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
45%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Jim Miller

1.49takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Diego Sanchez↑ +1.4pp
open 36.2%close 37.6%
Jim Miller↓ −1.4pp
open 63.8%close 62.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Sanchez opened at 36.2% and closed at 37.6% (+1.4pp), with Jim Miller 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
Diego Sanchez16015736.2%37.6%+1.4pp
Jim Miller-210-18263.8%62.4%−1.4pp
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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