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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier · Marc Diakiese vs Lando Vannata
From the tape · 28 Sep 2019

Marc Diakiese vs Lando Vannata

UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier · Copenhagen, Denmark
Result

Marc Diakiese beat Lando Vannata

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Neil Hall

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
Blue corner LandoVannata“Groovy”Elevation Fight Team · Toms River, New Jersey
Lightweight3 rounds28 Sep 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Diakiese.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Vannata.
17-7
Record
12-8-2
−1 yr26
Age
27
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+2″73″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
7
2/450% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Great Britain Top Team
Gym
Elevation Fight Team
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
From
Toms River, New Jersey
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
Marc Diakiese16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 15BODY25%4 of 10LEGS50%8 of 13
Lando Vannata10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 8BODY20%2 of 4LEGS70%7 of 9
16 of 38
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:49
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstNicolaj Bulow10–9Andreas Grüner10–9Cezary Wojciechowski10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Marc Diakiese13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 21BODY31%4 of 9LEGS38%5 of 8
Lando Vannata8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 20BODY38%3 of 4LEGS38%3 of 8
13 of 38
Sig.
strikes
8 of 32
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:46
Control
0:06
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstNicolaj Bulow10–9Andreas Grüner10–9Cezary Wojciechowski10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marc Diakiese11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 16BODY18%2 of 6LEGS9%1 of 1
Lando Vannata7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 8BODY43%3 of 4LEGS43%3 of 5
11 of 23
Sig.
strikes
7 of 17
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:32
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstNicolaj Bulow10–9Andreas Grüner10–8Cezary Wojciechowski10–9

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 · Neil Hall
Marc DiakieseLando Vannata
Official totals — Marc Diakiese first
JudgeTotal
Nicolaj Bulow30–27
Andreas Grüner2.4 avg spread · 68% wide30–26
Cezary Wojciechowski30–27

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 — 10 scored, Marc Diakiese first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Diakiese · 93%29-28 Diakiese · 7%

15 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
1.24 / 15m
7.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.44 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
36%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Lando Vannata

1.24takedowns / 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.

Marc Diakiese↑ +8.1pp
open 52.9%close 61.0%
Lando Vannata↓ −8.1pp
open 47.1%close 39.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Marc Diakiese opened at 52.9% and closed at 61.0% (+8.1pp), with Lando Vannata 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
Marc Diakiese-135-16952.9%61.0%+8.1pp
Lando Vannata-10514947.1%39.0%−8.1pp
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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