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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · Diego Ferreira vs Beneil Dariush
From the tape · 6 Feb 2021

Diego Ferreira vs Beneil Dariush

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Beneil Dariush beat Diego Ferreira

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 DiegoFerreiraFortis MMA · Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BeneilDariushKings MMA · Yorba Linda, California
Lightweight3 rounds6 Feb 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 13 UFC wins.
20-7
Record
23-8-1
36
Age
−5 yr31
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
10
UFC bouts
+818
5/862% of wins
Finishes
8/1362% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
Kings MMA
Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
From
Yorba Linda, California
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
Diego Ferreira21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 32BODY19%4 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
Beneil Dariush29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 46BODY10%3 of 3LEGS7%2 of 2
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
29 of 51
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:06
Control
3:06
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Ferreira firstDave Hagen9–10Chris Lee9–10Jerin Valel10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Diego Ferreira14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 20BODY29%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Beneil Dariush10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 17BODY10%1 of 3LEGS20%2 of 2
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
10 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 5
0:16
Control
3:37
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Ferreira firstDave Hagen9–10Chris Lee9–10Jerin Valel9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Diego Ferreira19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 52BODY11%2 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
Beneil Dariush23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 35BODY26%6 of 6LEGS9%2 of 2
19 of 58
Sig.
strikes
23 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 6
0:36
Control
0:40
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ferreira firstDave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9Jerin Valel10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Diego FerreiraBeneil Dariush
Official totals — Diego Ferreira first
JudgeTotal
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Jerin Valel29–28

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 — 20 scored, Diego Ferreira first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com27–30
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Phil Murphy ESPN27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Dariush · 64%29-28 Dariush · 29%29-28 Ferreira · 4%30-28 Dariush · 2%29-27 Dariush · 0%

193 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.

Diego Ferreira

0.82takedowns / 15 min
0.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.21 / 15m
2.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.82 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
38%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Beneil Dariush

2.21takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Diego Ferreira↓ −6.3pp
open 53.2%close 47.0%
Beneil Dariush↑ +6.3pp
open 46.8%close 53.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Ferreira opened at 53.2% and closed at 47.0% (−6.3pp), with Beneil Dariush 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
Diego Ferreira-12510453.2%47.0%−6.3pp
Beneil Dariush105-12446.8%53.0%+6.3pp
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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