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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis · Nate Marquardt vs Cezar Ferreira
From the tape · 11 Nov 2017

Nate Marquardt vs Cezar Ferreira

UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis · Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Result

Cezar Ferreira beat Nate Marquardt

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

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
CF
Blue corner CezarFerreira“Mutante”MMA Masters · Ibitinga, Sao Paulo
Middleweight3 rounds11 Nov 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Carries 14 points more takedown defence than Marquardt.
35-19-2
Record
13-8
38
Age
−6 yr32
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
74″
Reach
+4″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1324
UFC bouts
11
+41%9/1369% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
High Altitude Martial Arts
Gym
MMA Masters
Aurora, Colorado
From
Ibitinga, Sao Paulo
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Nate Marquardt8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 13BODY12%1 of 1LEGS38%3 of 4
Cezar Ferreira16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 15BODY12%2 of 4LEGS62%10 of 10
8 of 18
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Marquardt
Nate Marquardt20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 27BODY30%6 of 7LEGS15%3 of 3
Cezar Ferreira18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 23BODY17%3 of 7LEGS39%7 of 8
20 of 37
Sig.
strikes
18 of 38
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:26
Control
0:18
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nate Marquardt8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 9BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Cezar Ferreira13 sig landed
HEAD15%2 of 3BODY77%10 of 10LEGS8%1 of 1
8 of 10
Sig.
strikes
13 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:15
Control
4:26
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 11
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Nate Marquardt first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Brian Costello28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 13 scored, Nate Marquardt first · unofficial

Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ferreira · 82%29-28 Marquardt · 11%29-27 Ferreira · 4%

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
2.69 / 15m
3.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.08 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
53%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Cezar Ferreira

2.69takedowns / 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↓ −12.6pp
open 43.3%close 30.7%
Cezar Ferreira↑ +12.6pp
open 56.7%close 69.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nate Marquardt opened at 43.3% and closed at 30.7% (−12.6pp), with Cezar Ferreira 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 Marquardt11521543.3%30.7%−12.6pp
Cezar Ferreira-155-25256.7%69.3%+12.6pp
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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