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Events · UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 · Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor
From the tape · 20 Aug 2016

Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor

UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Conor McGregor beat Nate Diaz

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · 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.

ND
Red corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ConorMcGregor“The Notorious”SBG Ireland · Dublin
Welterweight5 rounds20 Aug 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Carries 25 points more takedown defence than Diaz.
22-13
Record
22-7
31
Age
−3 yr28
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1422
UFC bouts
8
11/1479% of wins
Finishes
+7%6/786% of wins
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
SBG Ireland
Stockton, California
From
Dublin
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD McGregor
Nate Diaz25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 49BODY24%6 of 11LEGS32%8 of 13
Conor McGregor34 sig landed
HEAD41%14 of 35BODY9%3 of 4LEGS50%17 of 19
25 of 73
Sig.
strikes
34 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:05
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 2 KD McGregor
Nate Diaz37 sig landed
HEAD59%22 of 58BODY38%14 of 16LEGS3%1 of 2
Conor McGregor34 sig landed
HEAD56%19 of 54BODY15%5 of 5LEGS29%10 of 11
37 of 76
Sig.
strikes
34 of 70
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:30
Control
0:15
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 24Clinch 13Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Nate Diaz49 sig landed
HEAD82%40 of 72BODY18%9 of 15LEGS0%0 landed
Conor McGregor26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 35BODY15%4 of 4LEGS19%5 of 6
49 of 87
Sig.
strikes
26 of 45
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:31
Control
0:34
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 31Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstDerek Cleary10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–8
Round 45:00 of action
Nate Diaz36 sig landed
HEAD61%22 of 45BODY39%14 of 18LEGS0%0 landed
Conor McGregor46 sig landed
HEAD65%30 of 59BODY24%11 of 12LEGS11%5 of 5
36 of 63
Sig.
strikes
46 of 76
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:07
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 19Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 13Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nate Diaz19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 32BODY37%7 of 11LEGS0%0 of 1
Conor McGregor24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 29BODY12%3 of 4LEGS12%3 of 4
19 of 44
Sig.
strikes
24 of 37
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:42
Control
0:26
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 14Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diaz firstDerek Cleary10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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

Majority Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Nate DiazConor McGregor
Official totals — Nate Diaz first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide47–48
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide47–48
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide47–47

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 — 19 scored, Nate Diaz first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAFighting.com47–49
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com47–48
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com47–48
Dana Becker FightLine.com47–48
MM ABrasil.com.br47–48
MM AForum.com.br47–48
MM AJunkie.com47–48
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com47–48
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com47–48
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com47–48
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com47–48
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com46–47
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com47–47
MM AMania.com47–47
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com47–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–47
Fight Matrix.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 McGregor · 49%48-47 Diaz · 12%48-46 McGregor · 8%47-46 McGregor · 4%

3,574 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.

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.67 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.22 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
55%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Conor McGregor

0.67takedowns / 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.

Nate Diaz↓ −2.8pp
open 46.9%close 44.2%
Conor McGregor↑ +2.8pp
open 53.1%close 55.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nate Diaz opened at 46.9% and closed at 44.2% (−2.8pp), with Conor McGregor 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
Nate Diaz10011846.9%44.2%−2.8pp
Conor McGregor-130-13853.1%55.8%+2.8pp
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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