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Events · UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Cole Miller vs Mizuto Hirota
From the tape · 17 Dec 2016

Cole Miller vs Mizuto Hirota

UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Mizuto Hirota beat Cole Miller

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Ed Collantes

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.

CM
Red corner ColeMiller“Magrinho”Indiana
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MizutoHirota“Pugnus”Cave · Isahaya, Nagasaki
Featherweight3 rounds17 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Miller.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Hirota.
21-11
Record
18-10-2
−3 yr32
Age
35
+6″6' 1"
Height
5' 7"
+6″73″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1619
UFC bouts
3
Indiana
From
Isahaya, Nagasaki
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
Cole Miller11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 21BODY36%4 of 6LEGS27%3 of 4
Mizuto Hirota23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 38BODY13%3 of 5LEGS22%5 of 5
11 of 31
Sig.
strikes
23 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 4
0:00
Control
2:27
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 6
Judges · this round · Miller firstDerek Cleary9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Brandon Saucedo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cole Miller3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 11BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Mizuto Hirota16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 28BODY6%1 of 2LEGS6%1 of 2
3 of 13
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:03
Control
3:12
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 13
Judges · this round · Miller firstDerek Cleary9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Brandon Saucedo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cole Miller7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 12BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 2
Mizuto Hirota18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 29BODY17%3 of 4LEGS6%1 of 1
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
18 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:10
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 11
Judges · this round · Miller firstDerek Cleary8–10Marcos Rosales9–10Brandon Saucedo9–10

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 · Ed Collantes
Cole MillerMizuto Hirota
Official totals — Cole Miller first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide26–30
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide27–30
Brandon Saucedo27–30

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 — 13 scored, Cole Miller first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Gabriel Gelli mmabrasil.com.br27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Hirota · 59%30-26 Hirota · 32%29-27 Miller · 4%29-28 Miller · 4%

22 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.

Cole Miller

0.60takedowns / 15 min
0.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.36 / 15m
1.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.72 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
50%
1.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Mizuto Hirota

1.36takedowns / 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.

Cole Miller↑ +4.6pp
open 46.2%close 50.8%
Mizuto Hirota↓ −4.6pp
open 53.8%close 49.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cole Miller opened at 46.2% and closed at 50.8% (+4.6pp), with Mizuto Hirota 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
Cole Miller100-11346.2%50.8%+4.6pp
Mizuto Hirota-140-10653.8%49.2%−4.6pp
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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