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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal · Marc Diakiese vs Joe Duffy
From the tape · 16 Mar 2019

Marc Diakiese vs Joe Duffy

UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Marc Diakiese beat Joe Duffy

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Daniel Movahedi

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.

MD
Red corner MarcDiakiese“Bonecrusher”Great Britain Top Team · Doncaster, South Yorkshire
VSOn the tape
JD
Blue corner JoeDuffy“Irish”New York
Lightweight3 rounds16 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
17-7
Record
16-5
−5 yr26
Age
31
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
73″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
6
2/367% of wins
Finishes
+8%3/475% of wins
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
From
New York
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⚡ 1 KD Diakiese
Marc Diakiese25 sig landed
HEAD32%8 of 20BODY28%7 of 8LEGS40%10 of 13
Joe Duffy7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 19BODY0%0 of 1LEGS57%4 of 4
25 of 41
Sig.
strikes
7 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:08
Control
0:16
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstMark Collett10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Marc Diakiese18 sig landed
HEAD22%4 of 18BODY50%9 of 10LEGS28%5 of 5
Joe Duffy4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 18BODY25%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 33
Sig.
strikes
4 of 21
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:56
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstMark Collett10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marc Diakiese20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 18BODY30%6 of 7LEGS35%7 of 7
Joe Duffy4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 13BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 32
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:24
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstMark Collett10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Andy Roberts10–9

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 · Daniel Movahedi
Marc DiakieseJoe Duffy
Official totals — Marc Diakiese first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Andy Roberts1.9 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 — 17 scored, Marc Diakiese first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Adam Martin Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
Keith Shillan FanSided.com30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Nolan King FloCombat30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Diakiese · 80%29-28 Duffy · 12%30-26 Diakiese · 8%

25 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.

Marc Diakiese

3.29takedowns / 15 min
3.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.96 / 15m
7.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.45 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
66%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Joe Duffy

0.96takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Marc Diakiese vs Joe Duffy.

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