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History · 2017 · UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 · Felice Herrig vs Cortney Casey
From the tape · 2 Dec 2017

Felice Herrig vs Cortney Casey

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

Felice Herrig beat Cortney Casey

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Bobby Wombacher

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.

FH
Red corner FeliceHerrig“Lil Bulldog”Team Curran · Buffalo Grove, Illinois
VSOn the tape
CC
Blue corner CortneyCasey“Cast Iron”MMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Women's Strawweight3 rounds2 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
14-10
Record
10-10
33
Age
−3 yr30
5' 4"
Height
+3″5' 7"
65″
Reach
+2″67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+16
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
Team Curran
Gym
MMA Lab
Buffalo Grove, Illinois
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Felice Herrig22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 59BODY14%3 of 4LEGS14%3 of 5
Cortney Casey29 sig landed
HEAD79%23 of 60BODY0%0 landedLEGS21%6 of 6
22 of 68
Sig.
strikes
29 of 66
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:33
Control
0:07
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Herrig firstSal D'Amato10–9Bryan Miner9–10Roy Silbert9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Felice Herrig29 sig landed
HEAD69%20 of 83BODY14%4 of 5LEGS17%5 of 8
Cortney Casey31 sig landed
HEAD74%23 of 85BODY3%1 of 2LEGS23%7 of 7
29 of 96
Sig.
strikes
31 of 94
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Herrig firstSal D'Amato10–9Bryan Miner10–9Roy Silbert9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Felice Herrig25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 77BODY16%4 of 7LEGS40%10 of 14
Cortney Casey31 sig landed
HEAD71%22 of 63BODY6%2 of 2LEGS23%7 of 8
25 of 98
Sig.
strikes
31 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Herrig firstSal D'Amato9–10Bryan Miner10–9Roy Silbert10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Bobby Wombacher
Felice HerrigCortney Casey
Official totals — Felice Herrig first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 17 scored, Felice Herrig first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Youngs FanSided.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Herrig · 47%29-28 Casey · 31%30-27 Herrig · 7%30-27 Casey · 4%

70 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.

Felice Herrig

1.08takedowns / 15 min
1.08 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.39 / 15m
3.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.26 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
31%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Cortney Casey

0.39takedowns / 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.

Felice Herrig↓ −0.7pp
open 52.9%close 52.2%
Cortney Casey↑ +0.7pp
open 47.1%close 47.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Felice Herrig opened at 52.9% and closed at 52.2% (−0.7pp), with Cortney Casey 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
Felice Herrig-135-12052.9%52.2%−0.7pp
Cortney Casey-105-10047.1%47.8%+0.7pp
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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