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History · 2017 · UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway · Vitor Belfort vs Nate Marquardt
From the tape · 3 Jun 2017

Vitor Belfort vs Nate Marquardt

UFC 212: Aldo vs. Holloway · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Vitor Belfort beat Nate Marquardt

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Osiris Maia

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.

VB
Red corner VitorBelfort“The Phenom”Kill Cliff FC · Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
NM
Blue corner NateMarquardt“The Great”High Altitude Martial Arts · Aurora, Colorado
Middleweight3 rounds3 Jun 2017
The story going in
  • Every one of Belfort’s 14 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Belfort.
26-14
Record
35-19-2
40
Age
−2 yr38
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+124
UFC bouts
23
+31%14/14100% of wins
Finishes
9/1369% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
High Altitude Martial Arts
Rio de Janeiro
From
Aurora, Colorado
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
Vitor Belfort3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 9BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Nate Marquardt11 sig landed
HEAD9%1 of 13BODY27%3 of 3LEGS64%7 of 7
3 of 10
Sig.
strikes
11 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:03
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Belfort firstPhillipe Iorio9–10Chris Lee9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Vitor Belfort16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 30BODY12%2 of 2LEGS6%1 of 1
Nate Marquardt26 sig landed
HEAD38%10 of 33BODY31%8 of 9LEGS31%8 of 8
16 of 33
Sig.
strikes
26 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Belfort firstPhillipe Iorio10–9Chris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Vitor Belfort18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 30BODY22%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Nate Marquardt20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 28BODY25%5 of 6LEGS25%5 of 6
18 of 35
Sig.
strikes
20 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Belfort firstPhillipe Iorio10–9Chris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9

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 · Osiris Maia
Vitor BelfortNate Marquardt
Official totals — Vitor Belfort first
JudgeTotal
Phillipe Iorio29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% 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 — 20 scored, Vitor Belfort first · unofficial

Youngs FanSided.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Paul Gift BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Gabriel Gelli MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Marquardt · 57%29-28 Belfort · 34%30-27 Marquardt · 3%30-28 Marquardt · 2%

190 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.

Vitor Belfort

1.02takedowns / 15 min
1.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.87 / 15m
1.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.67 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
51%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Nate Marquardt

1.87takedowns / 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.

Vitor Belfort↑ +1.2pp
open 61.4%close 62.6%
Nate Marquardt↓ −1.2pp
open 38.6%close 37.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Vitor Belfort opened at 61.4% and closed at 62.6% (+1.2pp), with Nate Marquardt 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
Vitor Belfort-185-18261.4%62.6%+1.2pp
Nate Marquardt14515938.6%37.4%−1.2pp
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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