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Events · UFC on FOX: Maia vs. Condit · Garreth McLellan vs Alessio Di Chirico
From the tape · 27 Aug 2016

Garreth McLellan vs Alessio Di Chirico

UFC on FOX: Maia vs. Condit · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Result

Alessio Di Chirico beat Garreth McLellan

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Dornan

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.

GM
Red corner GarrethMcLellan“Soldier Boy”FightFit Militia · Johannesburg, Gauteng
VSOn the tape
AC
Blue corner Alessio DiChirico“Manzo”Gloria Fight Center · Rome
Middleweight3 rounds27 Aug 2016
The story going in
  • Is 15 points more accurate striking than Chirico.
  • Carries 49 points more takedown defence than McLellan.
13-6
Record
13-7
33
Age
−7 yr26
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
FightFit Militia
Gym
Gloria Fight Center
Johannesburg, Gauteng
From
Rome
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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
Garreth McLellan26 sig landed
HEAD31%8 of 30BODY54%14 of 27LEGS15%4 of 6
Alessio Di Chirico17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 40BODY24%4 of 5LEGS12%2 of 2
26 of 63
Sig.
strikes
17 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:12
Control
0:54
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · McLellan firstJohn Cooper10–9David Therien9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Chirico
Garreth McLellan22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 32BODY27%6 of 7LEGS14%3 of 4
Alessio Di Chirico29 sig landed
HEAD90%26 of 57BODY7%2 of 3LEGS3%1 of 1
22 of 43
Sig.
strikes
29 of 61
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:57
Control
1:25
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 9Clinch 13Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 8Ground 9
Judges · this round · McLellan firstJohn Cooper9–10David Therien9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Garreth McLellan9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 27BODY33%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Alessio Di Chirico15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 25BODY7%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 33
Sig.
strikes
15 of 28
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 4
2:34
Control
0:47
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · McLellan firstJohn Cooper9–10David Therien10–9Tony 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

Split Decision

Referee · Kevin Dornan
Garreth McLellanAlessio Di Chirico
Official totals — Garreth McLellan first
JudgeTotal
John Cooper28–29
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
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 — 15 scored, Garreth McLellan first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Chirico Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Chirico Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30
Chirico Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Chirico CombatPress.com28–29
Chirico Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Chirico Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Chirico Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Di Chirico Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Chirico MMAForum.com.br28–29
Chirico Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Chirico MMAJunkie.com28–29
Chirico Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Chirico Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chirico MMAMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Di Chirico · 62%30-27 Di Chirico · 31%29-28 McLellan · 3%30-28 Di Chirico · 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.

Garreth McLellan

1.15takedowns / 15 min
1.15 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.46 / 15m
5.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.74 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
39%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Alessio Di Chirico

1.46takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Garreth McLellan↓ −6.7pp
open 32.6%close 25.9%
Alessio Di Chirico↑ +6.7pp
open 67.4%close 74.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Garreth McLellan opened at 32.6% and closed at 25.9% (−6.7pp), with Alessio Di Chirico 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
Garreth McLellan18527232.6%25.9%−6.7pp
Alessio Di Chirico-265-33267.4%74.1%+6.7pp
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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