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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson · Keita Nakamura vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
From the tape · 1 Oct 2016

Keita Nakamura vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson · Portland, Oregon, USA
Result

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos beat Keita Nakamura

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Dave Hagen

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.

KN
Red corner KeitaNakamura“K-Taro”United Gym Tokyo · Katsushika, Tokyo
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Elizeu Zaleski dosSantos“Capoeira”CM System · Francisco Beltrao, Parana
Welterweight3 rounds1 Oct 2016
The story going in
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Santos.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Nakamura.
34-10-2
Record
25-10-1
32
Age
−3 yr29
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
73″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+46
UFC bouts
2
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
United Gym Tokyo
Gym
CM System
Katsushika, Tokyo
From
Francisco Beltrao, Parana
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
Keita Nakamura7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 18BODY25%2 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
8 of 22
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:28
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstRick Campos10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Keita Nakamura11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 26BODY9%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 58BODY24%4 of 5LEGS12%2 of 2
11 of 28
Sig.
strikes
17 of 65
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:48
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstRick Campos9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Keita Nakamura6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 14BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 29BODY0%0 of 2LEGS11%1 of 2
6 of 16
Sig.
strikes
9 of 33
2 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:25
Control
1:16
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstRick Campos9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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 · Dave Hagen
Keita NakamuraElizeu Zaleski dos Santos
Official totals — Keita Nakamura first
JudgeTotal
Rick Campos28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% 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, Keita Nakamura first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Santos MMAMania.com28–29
Santos Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Santos Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Santos MMAJunkie.com28–29
Santos Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
Santos Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Santos MMAForum.com.br28–29
Santos Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Santos Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Santos Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Santos Seán Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Santos Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Santos John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Santos Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Santos Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nakamura · 43%29-28 Zaleski dos Santos · 43%30-27 Zaleski dos Santos · 2%30-28 Nakamura · 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.

Keita Nakamura

1.65takedowns / 15 min
1.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.79 / 15m
3.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.95 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
20%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

0.79takedowns / 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.

Keita Nakamura↓ −8.8pp
open 62.1%close 53.2%
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos↑ +8.8pp
open 37.9%close 46.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Keita Nakamura opened at 62.1% and closed at 53.2% (−8.8pp), with Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos 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
Keita Nakamura-190-12562.1%53.2%−8.8pp
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos15010537.9%46.8%+8.8pp
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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