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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith · Nick Hein vs Damir Hadzovic
From the tape · 22 Jul 2018

Nick Hein vs Damir Hadzovic

UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Result

Damir Hadzovic beat Nick Hein

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Rich Mitchell

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.

NH
Red corner NickHein“Sergeant”Tiger Muay Thai · Cologne
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DamirHadzovic“The Bosnian Bomber”Arte Suave Copenhagen · Gorazde
Lightweight3 rounds22 Jul 2018
The story going in
  • Carries 49 points more takedown defence than Hadzovic.
  • Is 12 points more accurate striking than Hein.
14-5
Record
14-8
34
Age
−3 yr31
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
66″
Reach
+4″70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+36
UFC bouts
3
0/40% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Tiger Muay Thai
Gym
Arte Suave Copenhagen
Cologne
From
Gorazde
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
Nick Hein6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 41BODY33%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Damir Hadzovic12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 29BODY17%2 of 5LEGS25%3 of 3
6 of 46
Sig.
strikes
12 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hein firstBen Cartlidge10–9Pawel Harasim10–9Howard Hughes10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nick Hein25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 89BODY20%5 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
Damir Hadzovic30 sig landed
HEAD57%17 of 42BODY23%7 of 8LEGS20%6 of 6
25 of 95
Sig.
strikes
30 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hein firstBen Cartlidge9–10Pawel Harasim9–10Howard Hughes10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD HadzovicEnded 5:00
Nick Hein12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 52BODY8%1 of 2LEGS17%2 of 3
Damir Hadzovic29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 56BODY10%3 of 4LEGS7%2 of 2
12 of 57
Sig.
strikes
29 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Hein firstBen Cartlidge9–10Pawel Harasim9–10Howard Hughes9–10

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 · Rich Mitchell
Nick HeinDamir Hadzovic
Official totals — Nick Hein first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Pawel Harasim2.5 avg spread · 72% wide28–29
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

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 — 16 scored, Nick Hein first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Matheus Costa MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Hadzovic · 55%29-28 Hein · 19%30-27 Hadzovic · 19%

31 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.

Nick Hein

0.86takedowns / 15 min
0.86 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.91 / 15m
2.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.69 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
54%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Damir Hadzovic

0.91takedowns / 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.

Nick Hein↓ −0.9pp
open 59.9%close 59.0%
Damir Hadzovic↑ +0.9pp
open 40.1%close 41.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nick Hein opened at 59.9% and closed at 59.0% (−0.9pp), with Damir Hadzovic 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
Nick Hein-175-15659.9%59.0%−0.9pp
Damir Hadzovic13513640.1%41.0%+0.9pp
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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