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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar · Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar
From the tape · 16 Jan 2021

Max Holloway vs Calvin Kattar

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Max Holloway beat Calvin Kattar

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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 MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
CK
Blue corner CalvinKattarMethuen, Massachusetts
Featherweight5 rounds16 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
28-9
Record
23-10
−3 yr29
Age
32
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1523
UFC bouts
8
11/1765% of wins
Finishes
+2%4/667% of wins
Waianae, Hawaii
From
Methuen, Massachusetts
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Max Holloway56 sig landed
HEAD54%30 of 75BODY27%15 of 20LEGS20%11 of 13
Calvin Kattar24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 34BODY8%2 of 2LEGS38%9 of 11
56 of 108
Sig.
strikes
24 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 56Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Max Holloway89 sig landed
HEAD60%53 of 127BODY28%25 of 25LEGS12%11 of 12
Calvin Kattar20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 41BODY20%4 of 5LEGS10%2 of 2
89 of 164
Sig.
strikes
20 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:03
Distance 87Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–8Ben Cartlidge10–8David Lethaby10–8
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway75 sig landed
HEAD71%53 of 111BODY17%13 of 19LEGS12%9 of 9
Calvin Kattar29 sig landed
HEAD86%25 of 51BODY10%3 of 5LEGS3%1 of 3
75 of 139
Sig.
strikes
29 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:13
Control
0:00
Distance 73Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Max Holloway141 sig landed
HEAD63%89 of 135BODY32%45 of 48LEGS5%7 of 8
Calvin Kattar34 sig landed
HEAD79%27 of 63BODY15%5 of 6LEGS6%2 of 2
141 of 191
Sig.
strikes
34 of 71
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:02
Distance 139Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–8Ben Cartlidge10–8David Lethaby10–8
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway84 sig landed
HEAD58%49 of 105BODY23%19 of 21LEGS19%16 of 16
Calvin Kattar26 sig landed
HEAD77%20 of 48BODY8%2 of 5LEGS15%4 of 5
84 of 142
Sig.
strikes
26 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 84Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–8

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 · Herb Dean
Max HollowayCalvin Kattar
Official totals — Max Holloway first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell50–43
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide50–43
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide50–42

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 — 24 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com50–41
Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–41
MM AMania.com50–41
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com50–42
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–42
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com50–42
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com50–42
Phil Murphy ESPN50–42
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl50–42
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–42
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges50–42
Adam Martin BJPenn.com50–42
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com50–43
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com50–43
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com50–43
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com50–43
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com50–43
MM ABrasil.com.br50–43
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–43
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport50–43
MM AJunkie.com50–43
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–43
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com50–43
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com50–43

Fan vote · unofficial

50-41 Holloway · 33%50-42 Holloway · 31%50-43 Holloway · 18%50-40 Holloway · 9%50-39 Holloway · 2%

1,199 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.

Max Holloway

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.17 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
29%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Calvin Kattar

0.34takedowns / 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.

Max Holloway↑ +5.3pp
open 55.3%close 60.6%
Calvin Kattar↓ −5.3pp
open 44.7%close 39.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Holloway opened at 55.3% and closed at 60.6% (+5.3pp), with Calvin Kattar 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
Max Holloway-135-16855.3%60.6%+5.3pp
Calvin Kattar11514544.7%39.4%−5.3pp
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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