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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson · Joe Duffy vs Reza Madadi
From the tape · 18 Mar 2017

Joe Duffy vs Reza Madadi

UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Joe Duffy beat Reza Madadi

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

JD
Red corner JoeDuffy“Irish”New York
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RezaMadadi“Mad Dog”Allstars Training Center · Tehran
Lightweight3 rounds18 Mar 2017
The story going in
  • Every one of Duffy’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Every one of Madadi’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Duffy.
16-5
Record
14-6
−9 yr29
Age
38
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
73″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+15
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
New York
From
Tehran
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
Joe Duffy9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 15BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Reza Madadi4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 4BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 2
9 of 17
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
3:34
Control
0:46
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Duffy firstBen Cartlidge10–9Pawel Harasim10–9Takeo Kobayashi10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Joe Duffy21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 69BODY14%3 of 6LEGS5%1 of 2
Reza Madadi7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 21BODY14%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 2
21 of 77
Sig.
strikes
7 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
0:03
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Duffy firstBen Cartlidge10–9Pawel Harasim10–9Takeo Kobayashi10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Joe Duffy21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 59BODY19%4 of 6LEGS10%2 of 2
Reza Madadi17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 25BODY29%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 67
Sig.
strikes
17 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:46
Control
0:05
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Duffy firstBen Cartlidge10–9Pawel Harasim10–9Takeo Kobayashi10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Joe DuffyReza Madadi
Official totals — Joe Duffy first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Pawel Harasim2.5 avg spread · 72% wide30–27
Takeo Kobayashi30–27

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, Joe Duffy first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–26
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–26
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Youngs FanSided.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Duffy · 63%30-26 Duffy · 21%30-25 Duffy · 16%

19 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.

Joe Duffy

0.96takedowns / 15 min
0.96 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.17 / 15m
1.45 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.61 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
33%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Reza Madadi

3.17takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Joe Duffy vs Reza Madadi.

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