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History · 2017 · UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 · David Teymur vs Drakkar Klose
From the tape · 2 Dec 2017

David Teymur vs Drakkar Klose

UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Result

David Teymur beat Drakkar Klose

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.

DT
Red corner DavidTeymurAllstars Training Center · Stockholm
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DrakkarKloseMMA Lab · South Haven, Michigan
Lightweight3 rounds2 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Is 12 points more accurate striking than Teymur.
8-2
Record
16-3-1
−1 yr28
Age
29
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+13
UFC bouts
2
2/367% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Allstars Training Center
Gym
MMA Lab
Stockholm
From
South Haven, Michigan
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
David Teymur20 sig landed
HEAD15%3 of 27BODY30%6 of 14LEGS55%11 of 12
Drakkar Klose12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 30BODY42%5 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
20 of 53
Sig.
strikes
12 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:03
Control
0:06
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Teymur firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
David Teymur14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 23BODY7%1 of 6LEGS50%7 of 8
Drakkar Klose13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 17BODY31%4 of 4LEGS15%2 of 2
14 of 37
Sig.
strikes
13 of 23
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:46
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Teymur firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
David Teymur18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 31BODY39%7 of 11LEGS22%4 of 5
Drakkar Klose14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 35BODY43%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 47
Sig.
strikes
14 of 41
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
0:09
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Teymur firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón9–10Chris Lee10–9

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
David TeymurDrakkar Klose
Official totals — David Teymur first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 19 scored, David Teymur first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Kendrick Johnson The Ring30–27
Youngs FanSided.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Teymur · 70%29-28 Teymur · 11%29-28 Klose · 8%30-27 Klose · 5%

37 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.

David Teymur

0.94takedowns / 15 min
0.94 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.49 / 15m
2.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.73 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
26%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Drakkar Klose

1.49takedowns / 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.

David Teymur↓ −5.5pp
open 59.2%close 53.7%
Drakkar Klose↑ +5.5pp
open 40.8%close 46.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

David Teymur opened at 59.2% and closed at 53.7% (−5.5pp), with Drakkar Klose 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
David Teymur-170-12759.2%53.7%−5.5pp
Drakkar Klose13010740.8%46.3%+5.5pp
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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