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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson · Diego Sanchez vs Marcin Held
From the tape · 5 Nov 2016

Diego Sanchez vs Marcin Held

UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Result

Diego Sanchez beat Marcin Held

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

DS
Red corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MarcinHeldAnkos MMA · Tychy
Lightweight3 rounds5 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Held.
31-13
Record
23-7
34
Age
−10 yr24
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Ankos MMA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Tychy
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Diego Sanchez17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 34BODY29%5 of 9LEGS6%1 of 1
Marcin Held23 sig landed
HEAD100%23 of 63BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 44
Sig.
strikes
23 of 64
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
0:17
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Diego Sanchez8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 7BODY25%2 of 2LEGS12%1 of 1
Marcin Held2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
8 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:36
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Diego Sanchez21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 21BODY24%5 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
Marcin Held5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 27
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
4:10
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 18
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Diego Sanchez first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–27

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.46 / 15m
6.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.35 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
46%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Marcin Held

2.46takedowns / 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 (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.

Diego Sanchez↓ −8.5pp
open 35.6%close 27.1%
Marcin Held↑ +8.5pp
open 64.4%close 72.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Sanchez opened at 35.6% and closed at 27.1% (−8.5pp), with Marcin Held 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
Diego Sanchez16525735.6%27.1%−8.5pp
Marcin Held-215-30764.4%72.9%+8.5pp
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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