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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos · Nicolas Dalby vs Zak Cummings
From the tape · 10 Apr 2016

Nicolas Dalby vs Zak Cummings

UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos · Zagreb, Croatia
Result

Zak Cummings beat Nicolas Dalby

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

ND
Red corner NicolasDalby“Danish Dynamite”Rumble Sports · Copenhagen
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ZakCummingsFactory X · Springfield, Missouri
Welterweight3 rounds10 Apr 2016
The story going in
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Cummings.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
24-6-1
Record
25-7
31
Age
31
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+24
0/10% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Rumble Sports
Gym
Factory X
Copenhagen
From
Springfield, Missouri
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⚡ 1 KD Cummings1 sub attempt
Nicolas Dalby17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 33BODY12%2 of 10LEGS41%7 of 10
Zak Cummings13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 37BODY8%1 of 2LEGS23%3 of 3
17 of 53
Sig.
strikes
13 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:59
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dalby firstBen Cartlidge9–10Pawel Harasim9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Nicolas Dalby23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 37BODY35%8 of 12LEGS26%6 of 8
Zak Cummings26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 59BODY27%7 of 14LEGS8%2 of 2
23 of 57
Sig.
strikes
26 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dalby firstBen Cartlidge9–10Pawel Harasim9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nicolas Dalby17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 33BODY6%1 of 2LEGS24%4 of 5
Zak Cummings17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 36BODY18%3 of 3LEGS12%2 of 2
17 of 40
Sig.
strikes
17 of 41
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:01
Control
2:32
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Dalby firstBen Cartlidge9–10Pawel Harasim9–10Paul Sutherland9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Nicolas DalbyZak Cummings
Official totals — Nicolas Dalby first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Pawel Harasim2.5 avg spread · 72% wide27–30
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide27–30

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 — 12 scored, Nicolas Dalby first · unofficial

Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Cummings · 79%29-28 Cummings · 16%30-22 Dalby · 5%

19 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.

Nicolas Dalby

0.90takedowns / 15 min
0.90 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.62 / 15m
3.46 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.21 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
28%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Zak Cummings

0.62takedowns / 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.

Nicolas Dalby↓ −10.5pp
open 59.9%close 49.5%
Zak Cummings↑ +10.5pp
open 40.1%close 50.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nicolas Dalby opened at 59.9% and closed at 49.5% (−10.5pp), with Zak Cummings 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
Nicolas Dalby-175-10759.9%49.5%−10.5pp
Zak Cummings135-11240.1%50.5%+10.5pp
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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