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History · 2017 · UFC on FOX: Shevchenko vs. Pena · Nate Marquardt vs Sam Alvey
From the tape · 28 Jan 2017

Nate Marquardt vs Sam Alvey

UFC on FOX: Shevchenko vs. Pena · Denver, Colorado, USA
Result

Sam Alvey beat Nate Marquardt

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

NM
Red corner NateMarquardt“The Great”High Altitude Martial Arts · Aurora, Colorado
VSOn the tape
SA
Blue corner SamAlvey“Smile'N”Team Quest · Waterford, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds28 Jan 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 22 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Alvey.
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
35-19-2
Record
33-18-1
37
Age
−7 yr30
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1322
UFC bouts
9
9/1369% of wins
Finishes
+14%5/683% of wins
High Altitude Martial Arts
Gym
Team Quest
Aurora, Colorado
From
Waterford, Wisconsin
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
Nate Marquardt10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 4BODY40%4 of 5LEGS50%5 of 5
Sam Alvey8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 8BODY50%4 of 4LEGS25%2 of 5
10 of 14
Sig.
strikes
8 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:20
Control
1:29
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marquardt firstSal D'Amato10–9Ron Mann9–10Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nate Marquardt12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 24BODY17%2 of 5LEGS25%3 of 4
Sam Alvey20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 42BODY5%1 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
12 of 33
Sig.
strikes
20 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marquardt firstSal D'Amato9–10Ron Mann9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nate Marquardt6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 13BODY17%1 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
Sam Alvey8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 16BODY0%0 of 2LEGS62%5 of 5
6 of 18
Sig.
strikes
8 of 23
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:10
Control
0:32
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Marquardt firstSal D'Amato9–10Ron Mann10–9Jeff Mullen9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Nate MarquardtSam Alvey
Official totals — Nate Marquardt first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Ron Mann28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% 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 — 15 scored, Nate Marquardt first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Alvey · 54%29-28 Marquardt · 21%30-27 Alvey · 14%

28 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.

Nate Marquardt

1.87takedowns / 15 min
1.87 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.06 / 15m
3.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.43 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
14%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Sam Alvey

0.06takedowns / 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 (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.

Nate Marquardt↑ +4.8pp
open 38.6%close 43.4%
Sam Alvey↓ −4.8pp
open 61.4%close 56.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nate Marquardt opened at 38.6% and closed at 43.4% (+4.8pp), with Sam Alvey 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
Nate Marquardt14512238.6%43.4%+4.8pp
Sam Alvey-185-14261.4%56.6%−4.8pp
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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