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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Nordine Taleb vs Kyle Prepolec
From the tape · 4 May 2019

Nordine Taleb vs Kyle Prepolec

UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Result

Nordine Taleb beat Kyle Prepolec

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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.

NT
Red corner NordineTalebTristar Gym · Montreal, Quebec
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KylePrepolecMaximum Training Centre · Windsor, Ontario
Welterweight3 rounds4 May 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
15-7
Record
18-11
37
Age
−8 yr29
+3″6' 1"
Height
5' 10"
+4″74″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Tristar Gym
Gym
Maximum Training Centre
Montreal, Quebec
From
Windsor, Ontario
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
Nordine Taleb25 sig landed
HEAD24%6 of 42BODY36%9 of 11LEGS40%10 of 11
Kyle Prepolec23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 39BODY43%10 of 14LEGS4%1 of 3
25 of 64
Sig.
strikes
23 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Taleb firstEric Colón10–9Saleem Haniff10–9Jason Rodgers10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nordine Taleb31 sig landed
HEAD42%13 of 50BODY23%7 of 15LEGS35%11 of 16
Kyle Prepolec20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 44BODY40%8 of 10LEGS10%2 of 5
31 of 81
Sig.
strikes
20 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Taleb firstEric Colón10–9Saleem Haniff10–9Jason Rodgers10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nordine Taleb34 sig landed
HEAD38%13 of 33BODY32%11 of 13LEGS29%10 of 10
Kyle Prepolec9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 30BODY44%4 of 6LEGS0%0 of 2
34 of 56
Sig.
strikes
9 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:00
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Taleb firstEric Colón10–9Saleem Haniff10–9Jason Rodgers10–9

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 · Jerin Valel
Nordine TalebKyle Prepolec
Official totals — Nordine Taleb first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Saleem Haniff30–27
Jason Rodgers2.1 avg spread · 50% 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 — 13 scored, Nordine Taleb first · unofficial

Keith Shillan FanSided.com30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Pannie Tran FightMatrix.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Adam Martin Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ant Walker Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Peter Harrison Wrestling Observer30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Taleb · 90%30-26 Taleb · 10%

10 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.

Nordine Taleb

1.94takedowns / 15 min
1.94 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
76%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kyle Prepolec

0.00takedowns / 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.

Nordine Taleb↑ +31.6pp
open 47.1%close 78.8%
Kyle Prepolec↓ −31.6pp
open 52.9%close 21.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nordine Taleb opened at 47.1% and closed at 78.8% (+31.6pp), with Kyle Prepolec 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
Nordine Taleb-105-44647.1%78.8%+31.6pp
Kyle Prepolec-13535452.9%21.2%−31.6pp
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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