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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov · Scott Holtzman vs Michael McBride
From the tape · 22 Apr 2017

Scott Holtzman vs Michael McBride

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Scott Holtzman beat Michael McBride

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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.

SH
Red corner ScottHoltzman“Hot Sauce”Knoxville, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
MM
Blue corner MichaelMcBrideWebster City, Iowa
Lightweight3 rounds22 Apr 2017
14-6
Record
8-3
33
Age
−2 yr31
5' 9"
Height
+4″6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+34
UFC bouts
1
Knoxville, Tennessee
From
Webster City, Iowa
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⚡ 1 KD Holtzman1 sub attempt
Scott Holtzman27 sig landed
HEAD70%19 of 33BODY11%3 of 8LEGS19%5 of 7
Michael McBride34 sig landed
HEAD50%17 of 44BODY26%9 of 15LEGS24%8 of 9
27 of 48
Sig.
strikes
34 of 68
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:31
Control
0:34
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Holtzman firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Scott Holtzman30 sig landed
HEAD67%20 of 39BODY10%3 of 7LEGS23%7 of 7
Michael McBride20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 29BODY30%6 of 7LEGS15%3 of 3
30 of 53
Sig.
strikes
20 of 39
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 4
2:42
Control
0:22
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Holtzman firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Scott Holtzman47 sig landed
HEAD66%31 of 64BODY4%2 of 7LEGS30%14 of 18
Michael McBride29 sig landed
HEAD76%22 of 54BODY14%4 of 7LEGS10%3 of 4
47 of 89
Sig.
strikes
29 of 65
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:32
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 18
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Holtzman firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–8Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Scott HoltzmanMichael McBride
Official totals — Scott Holtzman first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–26
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide30–27

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 — 12 scored, Scott Holtzman first · unofficial

Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com30–25
John Pollock Fight Network30–26
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Holtzman · 54%30-26 Holtzman · 23%30-28 Holtzman · 8%30-23 Holtzman · 8%29-28 Holtzman · 8%

13 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.

Scott Holtzman

1.88takedowns / 15 min
1.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.85 / 15m
3.36 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.40 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
42%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Michael McBride

1.85takedowns / 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

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.

Scott Holtzman↑ +3.6pp
open 68.9%close 72.5%
Michael McBride↓ −3.6pp
open 31.1%close 27.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Scott Holtzman opened at 68.9% and closed at 72.5% (+3.6pp), with Michael McBride 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
Scott Holtzman-280-29768.9%72.5%+3.6pp
Michael McBride20025231.1%27.5%−3.6pp
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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