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History · 2020 · UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje · Nathaniel Wood vs Casey Kenney
From the tape · 24 Oct 2020

Nathaniel Wood vs Casey Kenney

UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Casey Kenney beat Nathaniel Wood

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Catch WeightMain cardReferee · Anders Ohlsson

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 NathanielWood“The Prospect”Great Britain Top Team · London
VSOn the tape
CK
Blue corner CaseyKenneyRise Combat Sports · Tuscon, Arizona
Catch Weight3 rounds24 Oct 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Kenney.
23-6
Record
16-4-1
−2 yr27
Age
29
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
+1″69″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
5
UFC bouts
5
+50%3/475% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Great Britain Top Team
Gym
Rise Combat Sports
London
From
Tuscon, Arizona
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
Nathaniel Wood51 sig landed
HEAD43%22 of 83BODY12%6 of 12LEGS45%23 of 25
Casey Kenney54 sig landed
HEAD54%29 of 68BODY24%13 of 15LEGS22%12 of 13
51 of 120
Sig.
strikes
54 of 96
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 51Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 53Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wood firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Nathaniel Wood48 sig landed
HEAD54%26 of 86BODY0%0 of 4LEGS46%22 of 23
Casey Kenney40 sig landed
HEAD65%26 of 71BODY12%5 of 9LEGS22%9 of 10
48 of 113
Sig.
strikes
40 of 90
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 48Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wood firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nathaniel Wood37 sig landed
HEAD59%22 of 68BODY8%3 of 6LEGS32%12 of 14
Casey Kenney29 sig landed
HEAD66%19 of 50BODY24%7 of 8LEGS10%3 of 3
37 of 88
Sig.
strikes
29 of 61
0 of 3
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
1:28
Distance 35Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Wood firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary10–9David Lethaby9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Anders Ohlsson
Nathaniel WoodCasey Kenney
Official totals — Nathaniel Wood first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide27–30

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, Nathaniel Wood first · unofficial

Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Adam Martin BJPenn.com28–29
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ant Walker Sherdog.com28–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com29–28
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
John Brannigan Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Wood · 50%29-28 Kenney · 35%30-27 Wood · 4%30-27 Kenney · 4%

163 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.

Nathaniel Wood

1.35takedowns / 15 min
1.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
2.81 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.11 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
35%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Casey Kenney

1.09takedowns / 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.

Nathaniel Wood→ no move
open 42.9%close 42.5%
Casey Kenney→ no move
open 57.1%close 57.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Nathaniel Wood opened at 42.9% and closed at 42.5% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Nathaniel Wood12512642.9%42.5%−0.4pp
Casey Kenney-145-14957.1%57.5%+0.4pp
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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