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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Kevin Holland vs Gerald Meerschaert
From the tape · 30 Mar 2019

Kevin Holland vs Gerald Meerschaert

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Kevin Holland beat Gerald Meerschaert

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

Red corner KevinHolland“Trailblazer”Phalanx MMA Academy · Fort Worth, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GeraldMeerschaert“GM3”Kill Cliff FC · Racine, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds30 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Meerschaert.
  • Every one of Meerschaert’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Holland.
29-15
Record
37-22
−5 yr26
Age
31
+2″6' 3"
Height
6' 1"
+4″81″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+46
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
4/4100% of wins
Phalanx MMA Academy
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Fort Worth, Texas
From
Racine, Wisconsin
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 action4 sub attempts
Kevin Holland9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 11BODY22%2 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
Gerald Meerschaert2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS100%2 of 2
9 of 14
Sig.
strikes
2 of 2
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:52
Control
2:39
2
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holland firstGreg Monskie10–9Dave Tirelli10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kevin Holland13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 16BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
Gerald Meerschaert4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
13 of 18
Sig.
strikes
4 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 6
0:50
Control
3:43
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Holland firstGreg Monskie10–9Dave Tirelli9–10Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Kevin Holland5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 8BODY20%1 of 1LEGS40%2 of 2
Gerald Meerschaert4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 3BODY75%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 11
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:28
Control
2:51
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holland firstGreg Monskie9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Kevin HollandGerald Meerschaert
Official totals — Kevin Holland first
JudgeTotal
Greg Monskie29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide28–29
Cardo Urso2.0 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 — 17 scored, Kevin Holland first · unofficial

Keith Shillan FanSided.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Ant Walker Sherdog.com28–29
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nolan King FloCombat28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Meerschaert · 57%29-28 Holland · 29%30-27 Holland · 11%30-28 Holland · 2%

63 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.

Kevin Holland

0.79takedowns / 15 min
0.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.70 / 15m
2.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.86 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
29%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Gerald Meerschaert

1.70takedowns / 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.

Kevin Holland↓ −1.5pp
open 67.4%close 65.9%
Gerald Meerschaert↑ +1.5pp
open 32.6%close 34.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kevin Holland opened at 67.4% and closed at 65.9% (−1.5pp), with Gerald Meerschaert 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
Kevin Holland-265-21767.4%65.9%−1.5pp
Gerald Meerschaert18518232.6%34.1%+1.5pp
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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