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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Scott Holtzman vs Darrell Horcher
From the tape · 9 Dec 2017

Scott Holtzman vs Darrell Horcher

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Fresno, California, USA
Result

Scott Holtzman beat Darrell Horcher

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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.

SH
Red corner ScottHoltzman“Hot Sauce”Knoxville, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DarrellHorcher“The Saint”Unrivaled Athletics · Shermans Dale, Pennsylvania
Lightweight3 rounds9 Dec 2017
14-6
Record
13-4
34
Age
−4 yr30
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+35
UFC bouts
2
1/333% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Knoxville, Tennessee
From
Shermans Dale, Pennsylvania
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
Scott Holtzman20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 20BODY45%9 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Darrell Horcher12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 13BODY25%3 of 3LEGS25%3 of 3
20 of 29
Sig.
strikes
12 of 19
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:32
Control
1:32
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 8Ground 3
Judges · this round · Holtzman firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Jason McCoy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Scott Holtzman19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 31BODY32%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Darrell Horcher14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 22BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 38
Sig.
strikes
14 of 23
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:38
Control
0:02
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 5
Judges · this round · Holtzman firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Jason McCoy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Scott Holtzman10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 9BODY50%5 of 5LEGS10%1 of 1
Darrell Horcher10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 19BODY10%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 15
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:39
Control
0:07
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holtzman firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Jason McCoy10–9

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 · Mike Beltran
Scott HoltzmanDarrell Horcher
Official totals — Scott Holtzman first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–27
Jason McCoy30–27

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 — 6 scored, Scott Holtzman first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Holtzman · 100%

11 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.

Scott Holtzman

1.88takedowns / 15 min
1.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.35 / 15m
3.36 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.70 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Darrell Horcher

0.35takedowns / 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 (5.22 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.

Scott Holtzman↑ +10.3pp
open 47.1%close 57.5%
Darrell Horcher↓ −10.3pp
open 52.9%close 42.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Scott Holtzman opened at 47.1% and closed at 57.5% (+10.3pp), with Darrell Horcher 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
Scott Holtzman-105-14747.1%57.5%+10.3pp
Darrell Horcher-13512752.9%42.5%−10.3pp
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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