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History · 2017 · The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale · Nicco Montano vs Roxanne Modafferi
From the tape · 1 Dec 2017

Nicco Montano vs Roxanne Modafferi

The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nicco Montano beat Roxanne Modafferi

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Women's Flyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

NM
Red corner NiccoMontanoFit NHB · Lukachukai, Arizona
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RoxanneModafferi“The Happy Warrior”Syndicate MMA · Las Vegas, Nevada
Women's Flyweight Title5 rounds1 Dec 2017
5-3
Record
25-21
−7 yr28
Age
35
5' 5"
Height
+2″5' 7"
65″
Reach
+4″69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Fit NHB
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Lukachukai, Arizona
From
Las Vegas, Nevada
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Nicco Montano21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 52BODY10%2 of 3LEGS38%8 of 8
Roxanne Modafferi17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 43BODY18%3 of 3LEGS29%5 of 5
21 of 63
Sig.
strikes
17 of 51
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:29
Control
0:51
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 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 action1 sub attempt
Nicco Montano46 sig landed
HEAD74%34 of 91BODY11%5 of 8LEGS15%7 of 7
Roxanne Modafferi26 sig landed
HEAD92%24 of 101BODY4%1 of 4LEGS4%1 of 1
46 of 106
Sig.
strikes
26 of 106
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:01
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 38Clinch 4Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 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 action
Nicco Montano52 sig landed
HEAD83%43 of 121BODY4%2 of 6LEGS13%7 of 7
Roxanne Modafferi37 sig landed
HEAD95%35 of 114BODY3%1 of 4LEGS3%1 of 2
52 of 134
Sig.
strikes
37 of 120
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:16
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 50Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action
Nicco Montano39 sig landed
HEAD69%27 of 77BODY10%4 of 6LEGS21%8 of 9
Roxanne Modafferi27 sig landed
HEAD85%23 of 65BODY11%3 of 4LEGS4%1 of 1
39 of 92
Sig.
strikes
27 of 70
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:32
Control
0:48
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Nicco Montano28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 56BODY0%0 landedLEGS18%5 of 5
Roxanne Modafferi25 sig landed
HEAD84%21 of 50BODY16%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
28 of 61
Sig.
strikes
25 of 56
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:54
Control
0:23
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 1
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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Nicco Montano first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide50–45
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide49–46

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.

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.

Nicco Montano

2.25takedowns / 15 min
2.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.35 / 15m
4.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.87 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
23%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Roxanne Modafferi

1.35takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Nicco Montano↑ +6.2pp
open 58.3%close 64.5%
Roxanne Modafferi↓ −6.2pp
open 41.7%close 35.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nicco Montano opened at 58.3% and closed at 64.5% (+6.2pp), with Roxanne Modafferi 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
Nicco Montano-165-20258.3%64.5%+6.2pp
Roxanne Modafferi12517241.7%35.5%−6.2pp
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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