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Events · UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya · Uros Medic vs Aalon Cruz
From the tape · 6 Mar 2021

Uros Medic vs Aalon Cruz

UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Uros Medic beat Aalon Cruz

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
1:40
LightweightMain 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 UrosMedic“The Doctor”Kings MMA · Anchorage, Alaska
VSOn the tape
AC
Blue corner AalonCruzTeam Darkside MMA · Tampa, Florida
Lightweight3 rounds6 Mar 2021
The story going in
  • Carries 55 points more takedown defence than Cruz.
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Medic.
14-3
Record
8-4
−4 yr27
Age
31
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
71″
Reach
+7″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Switch
Kings MMA
Gym
Team Darkside MMA
Anchorage, Alaska
From
Tampa, Florida
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 11:40 of action⚡ 1 KD MedicEnded 1:40
Uros Medic45 sig landed
HEAD96%43 of 61BODY2%1 of 1LEGS2%1 of 1
Aalon Cruz0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

45 of 63
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:56
Control
0:11
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 35
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Uros Medic

Round
1
Clock
1:40
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mark Smith.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Uros Medic

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.34takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.34 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.80 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS5
0.34 / 15m−1.80 vs field
ATTEMPTS4
0.68 / 15m−4.58 vs field
ACCURACY73
50%+6pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.30 vs field

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.

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.

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.

Uros Medic↑ +15.8pp
open 46.8%close 62.6%
Aalon Cruz↓ −15.8pp
open 53.2%close 37.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Uros Medic opened at 46.8% and closed at 62.6% (+15.8pp), with Aalon Cruz 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
Uros Medic105-18846.8%62.6%+15.8pp
Aalon Cruz-12515653.2%37.4%−15.8pp
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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