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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny · Matt Schnell vs Tyson Nam
From the tape · 20 Jan 2021

Matt Schnell vs Tyson Nam

UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Matt Schnell beat Tyson Nam

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · 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 MattSchnell“Danger”Fortis MMA · Shreveport, Louisiana
VSOn the tape
TN
Blue corner TysonNamWaimanalo, Hawaii
Flyweight3 rounds20 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 44 points more takedown defence than Schnell.
17-11
Record
21-14-1
−6 yr31
Age
37
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+37
UFC bouts
4
2/450% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Shreveport, Louisiana
From
Waimanalo, Hawaii
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
Matt Schnell19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 56BODY16%3 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
Tyson Nam14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 38BODY14%2 of 3LEGS29%4 of 4
19 of 62
Sig.
strikes
14 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Schnell33 sig landed
HEAD82%27 of 69BODY9%3 of 3LEGS9%3 of 3
Tyson Nam22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 59BODY18%4 of 6LEGS14%3 of 4
33 of 75
Sig.
strikes
22 of 69
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón9–10Anders Ohlsson10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matt Schnell33 sig landed
HEAD85%28 of 70BODY12%4 of 5LEGS3%1 of 2
Tyson Nam22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 67BODY18%4 of 6LEGS23%5 of 6
33 of 77
Sig.
strikes
22 of 79
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Matt SchnellTyson Nam
Official totals — Matt Schnell first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide29–28

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 — 16 scored, Matt Schnell first · unofficial

Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com29–28
Adam Martin BJPenn.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
John Brannigan Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Schnell · 43%29-28 Nam · 39%30-27 Schnell · 14%30-27 Nam · 3%30-29 Schnell · 1%

72 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.

Matt Schnell

0.60takedowns / 15 min
0.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
45%
ACCURACY
n/a
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Tyson Nam

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

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Matt Schnell↑ +3.2pp
open 45.7%close 48.9%
Tyson Nam↓ −3.2pp
open 54.3%close 51.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Schnell opened at 45.7% and closed at 48.9% (+3.2pp), with Tyson Nam 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
Matt Schnell110-10645.7%48.9%+3.2pp
Tyson Nam-130-11654.3%51.1%−3.2pp
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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