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History · 2017 · UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 · Rashad Evans vs Daniel Kelly
From the tape · 4 Mar 2017

Rashad Evans vs Daniel Kelly

UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Daniel Kelly beat Rashad Evans

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · 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.

RE
Red corner RashadEvans“Suga”Kill Cliff FC · Niagara Falls, New York
VSOn the tape
DK
Blue corner DanielKellyResilience Training Centre · Melbourne, Victoria
Middleweight3 rounds4 Mar 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
19-8-1
Record
13-4
−2 yr37
Age
39
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
+5″75″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1420
UFC bouts
6
+3%6/1443% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Resilience Training Centre
Niagara Falls, New York
From
Melbourne, Victoria
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
Rashad Evans8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 27BODY25%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Kelly12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 43BODY17%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 30
Sig.
strikes
12 of 46
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evans firstDerek Cleary10–9Dave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rashad Evans10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 32BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Kelly23 sig landed
HEAD83%19 of 51BODY9%2 of 4LEGS9%2 of 2
10 of 34
Sig.
strikes
23 of 57
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:07
Control
0:10
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evans firstDerek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rashad Evans35 sig landed
HEAD83%29 of 67BODY17%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Kelly39 sig landed
HEAD90%35 of 85BODY0%0 of 1LEGS10%4 of 4
35 of 74
Sig.
strikes
39 of 90
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evans firstDerek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10Chris Lee9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Rashad EvansDaniel Kelly
Official totals — Rashad Evans first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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 — 22 scored, Rashad Evans first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Youngs FanSided.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kelly · 39%30-27 Kelly · 33%29-28 Evans · 20%30-27 Evans · 3%30-28 Kelly · 2%

119 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.

Rashad Evans

2.98takedowns / 15 min
2.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.86 / 15m
6.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.47 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
34%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Daniel Kelly

1.86takedowns / 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.

Rashad Evans↑ +4.6pp
open 63.8%close 68.3%
Daniel Kelly↓ −4.6pp
open 36.2%close 31.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rashad Evans opened at 63.8% and closed at 68.3% (+4.6pp), with Daniel Kelly 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
Rashad Evans-210-24263.8%68.3%+4.6pp
Daniel Kelly16020536.2%31.7%−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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