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History · 2020 · UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez · Daniel Rodriguez vs Nicolas Dalby
From the tape · 21 Nov 2020

Daniel Rodriguez vs Nicolas Dalby

UFC 255: Figueiredo vs. Perez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nicolas Dalby beat Daniel Rodriguez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 DanielRodriguez“D-Rod”10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu · Alhambra, California
VSOn the tape
ND
Blue corner NicolasDalby“Danish Dynamite”Rumble Sports · Copenhagen
Welterweight3 rounds21 Nov 2020
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
20-6
Record
24-6-1
−3 yr33
Age
36
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
74″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+36
2/367% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Rumble Sports
Alhambra, California
From
Copenhagen
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
Daniel Rodriguez31 sig landed
HEAD35%11 of 44BODY39%12 of 16LEGS26%8 of 9
Nicolas Dalby17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 20BODY24%4 of 7LEGS47%8 of 15
31 of 69
Sig.
strikes
17 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Anthony Maness9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Daniel Rodriguez17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 35BODY29%5 of 10LEGS18%3 of 3
Nicolas Dalby9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 24BODY11%1 of 8LEGS56%5 of 6
17 of 48
Sig.
strikes
9 of 38
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:39
Control
0:55
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Anthony Maness9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Daniel Rodriguez35 sig landed
HEAD69%24 of 66BODY6%2 of 6LEGS26%9 of 10
Nicolas Dalby24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 53BODY8%2 of 8LEGS25%6 of 6
35 of 82
Sig.
strikes
24 of 67
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:02
Control
0:33
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Anthony Maness10–9Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Daniel RodriguezNicolas Dalby
Official totals — Daniel Rodriguez first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 20 scored, Daniel Rodriguez first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29
Adam Martin BJPenn.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com29–28
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rodriguez · 46%29-28 Dalby · 29%30-27 Dalby · 12%30-27 Rodriguez · 8%

165 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.

Daniel Rodriguez

0.51takedowns / 15 min
0.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.90 / 15m
1.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.46 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
26%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Nicolas Dalby

0.90takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Daniel Rodriguez↑ +7.5pp
open 67.3%close 74.7%
Nicolas Dalby↓ −7.5pp
open 32.7%close 25.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Daniel Rodriguez opened at 67.3% and closed at 74.7% (+7.5pp), with Nicolas Dalby 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
Daniel Rodriguez-230-35267.3%74.7%+7.5pp
Nicolas Dalby19528032.7%25.3%−7.5pp
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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