Round 1
7 of 24
Sig.
strikes
strikes
3 of 10
1 of 4
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
From the tape · 12 Nov 2016
Chris Weidman vs Yoel Romero
UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor · New York City, New York, USA
Result
Yoel Romero beat Chris Weidman
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · 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.
VSOn the tape
YR
The story going in
- Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
- Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
- Averages 1.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Romero.
- Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
16-8
Record
13-5
−7 yr32
Age
39
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
+5″78″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+310
UFC bouts
7
6/967% of wins
Finishes
+5%5/771% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
American Top Team
Baldwin, New York
From
Miami, Florida
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
UFCStats · per round
3 rounds of tape
Round 2
4 of 21
Sig.
strikes
strikes
8 of 21
0 of 4
Take-
downs
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
1:48
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 3
Round 3⚡ 1 KD RomeroEnded 0:24
1 of 2
Sig.
strikes
strikes
7 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
downs
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
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.
How it ended
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Won inside the distance
Yoel Romero
Round
3
Clock
0:24
Method
KO/TKO
This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mario Yamasaki.
Takedowns
Takedowns
The level change — head to head
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Chris Weidman
3.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.57 / 15m
7.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.23 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
30%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m
72%
TD DEFENCE
78%
Yoel Romero
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.
Chris Weidman→ no move
open 65.5%close 65.9%
Yoel Romero→ no move
open 34.5%close 34.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)
The line barely moved. Chris Weidman opened at 65.5% and closed at 65.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
| Corner | Open (US) | Close (US) | Open % | Close % | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Weidman | -210 | -217 | 65.5% | 65.9% | +0.4pp |
| Yoel Romero | 180 | 182 | 34.5% | 34.1% | −0.4pp |
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.