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Events · UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt · Tarec Saffiedine vs Rick Story
From the tape · 29 May 2016

Tarec Saffiedine vs Rick Story

UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rick Story beat Tarec Saffiedine

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

TS
Red corner TarecSaffiedine“Sponge”Tristar Gym · Brussels
VSOn the tape
RS
Blue corner RickStory“The Horror”MMA Lab · Tacoma, Washington
Welterweight3 rounds29 May 2016
The story going in
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Story.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 11 UFC wins.
16-7
Record
19-9
−2 yr29
Age
31
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
3
UFC bouts
+1417
0/20% of wins
Finishes
4/1136% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
MMA Lab
Brussels
From
Tacoma, Washington
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
Tarec Saffiedine6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 12BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
Rick Story16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 18BODY62%10 of 11LEGS12%2 of 3
6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:07
Control
1:56
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saffiedine firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tarec Saffiedine11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 12BODY55%6 of 8LEGS18%2 of 2
Rick Story13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 14BODY38%5 of 6LEGS31%4 of 4
11 of 22
Sig.
strikes
13 of 24
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:30
Control
2:42
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saffiedine firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tarec Saffiedine15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 28BODY7%1 of 2LEGS27%4 of 4
Rick Story29 sig landed
HEAD38%11 of 29BODY38%11 of 16LEGS24%7 of 10
15 of 34
Sig.
strikes
29 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
2:15
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 14Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saffiedine firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · John McCarthy
Tarec SaffiedineRick Story
Official totals — Tarec Saffiedine first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide28–29

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 — 18 scored, Tarec Saffiedine first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Severe MMA.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Youngs TheMMACorner.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Dana Becker FightLine.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Story · 76%29-28 Story · 10%30-28 Story · 7%29-28 Saffiedine · 3%30-27 Saffiedine · 3%

29 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.

Tarec Saffiedine

0.52takedowns / 15 min
0.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.53 / 15m
1.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.27 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
48%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Rick Story

2.53takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Tarec Saffiedine↓ −4.5pp
open 50.0%close 45.5%
Rick Story↑ +4.5pp
open 50.0%close 54.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tarec Saffiedine opened at 50.0% and closed at 45.5% (−4.5pp), with Rick Story 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
Tarec Saffiedine-12011150.0%45.5%−4.5pp
Rick Story-120-13150.0%54.5%+4.5pp
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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