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Events · UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny · Michael Chiesa vs Neil Magny
From the tape · 20 Jan 2021

Michael Chiesa vs Neil Magny

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

Michael Chiesa beat Neil Magny

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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 MichaelChiesa“Maverick”Sikjitsu · Spokane, Washington
VSOn the tape
Blue corner NeilMagny“The Haitian Sensation”Elevation Fight Team · Brooklyn, New York
Welterweight5 rounds20 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 17 UFC wins.
20-7
Record
32-15
33
Age
33
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
75″
Reach
+5″80″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
14
UFC bouts
+923
+25%6/1060% of wins
Finishes
6/1735% of wins
Sikjitsu
Gym
Elevation Fight Team
Spokane, Washington
From
Brooklyn, New York
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
Michael Chiesa7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 11BODY14%1 of 3LEGS29%2 of 2
Neil Magny3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 23BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
3 of 26
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:05
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Chiesa6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 10BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Neil Magny1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:11
Control
0:22
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Michael Chiesa3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Neil Magny4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 7BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 7
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:04
Control
1:47
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Michael Chiesa5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 9BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Neil Magny3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 3BODY67%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 10
Sig.
strikes
3 of 5
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:32
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Chiesa3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Neil Magny1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
1 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:29
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9David Lethaby10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Michael ChiesaNeil Magny
Official totals — Michael Chiesa first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell49–46
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide49–46

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, Michael Chiesa first · unofficial

Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com50–43
Nick Baldwin theScore50–45
MM AMania.com50–45
John Brannigan Sherdog.com50–45
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com50–45
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–45
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com50–45
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com50–45
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com50–45
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Combat Press.com50–45
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport50–45
Steve Duncan mma.uno50–45
Adam Martin BJPenn.com50–45
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl50–45
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com49–46
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Chiesa · 62%49-46 Chiesa · 20%49-45 Chiesa · 6%50-44 Chiesa · 5%50-46 Chiesa · 4%

85 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.

Michael Chiesa

3.11takedowns / 15 min
3.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.17 / 15m
6.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.56 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
39%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Neil Magny

2.17takedowns / 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.

Michael Chiesa↑ +0.6pp
open 42.0%close 42.6%
Neil Magny↓ −0.6pp
open 58.0%close 57.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Chiesa opened at 42.0% and closed at 42.6% (+0.6pp), with Neil Magny 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
Michael Chiesa13012642.0%42.6%+0.6pp
Neil Magny-150-14858.0%57.4%−0.6pp
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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