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Events · UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis · Donald Cerrone vs Matt Brown
From the tape · 10 Dec 2016

Donald Cerrone vs Matt Brown

UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Donald Cerrone beat Matt Brown

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
0:34
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

DC
Red corner DonaldCerrone“Cowboy”BMF Ranch · Broomfield, Colorado
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
Welterweight3 rounds10 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 12 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 13 UFC wins.
36-17
Record
26-19
−2 yr33
Age
35
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
73″
Reach
+2″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
22
UFC bouts
22
12/1867% of wins
Finishes
+18%11/1385% of wins
BMF Ranch
Gym
Immortal Fight Team
Broomfield, Colorado
From
Xenia, Ohio
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 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Donald Cerrone34 sig landed
HEAD71%24 of 60BODY12%4 of 6LEGS18%6 of 6
Matt Brown27 sig landed
HEAD56%15 of 45BODY44%12 of 18LEGS0%0 landed
34 of 72
Sig.
strikes
27 of 63
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:32
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Cerrone⚡ 1 KD Brown
Donald Cerrone25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 62BODY12%3 of 5LEGS12%3 of 3
Matt Brown41 sig landed
HEAD63%26 of 43BODY37%15 of 16LEGS0%0 of 1
25 of 70
Sig.
strikes
41 of 60
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:02
Control
0:01
1
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 6Ground 0
Round 30:34 of action⚡ 1 KD CerroneEnded 0:34
Donald Cerrone4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
Matt Brown2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 5
Sig.
strikes
2 of 5
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:02
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0

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

Donald Cerrone

Round
3
Clock
0:34
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: John McCarthy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Donald Cerrone

1.16takedowns / 15 min
1.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.68 / 15m
3.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.65 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
46%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 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.

Donald Cerrone↑ +5.8pp
open 66.1%close 72.0%
Matt Brown↓ −5.8pp
open 33.9%close 28.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Donald Cerrone opened at 66.1% and closed at 72.0% (+5.8pp), with Matt Brown 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
Donald Cerrone-245-29066.1%72.0%+5.8pp
Matt Brown17524533.9%28.0%−5.8pp
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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