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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Holland · Derek Brunson vs Kevin Holland
From the tape · 20 Mar 2021

Derek Brunson vs Kevin Holland

UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Holland · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Derek Brunson beat Kevin Holland

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMainReferee · 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.

DB
Red corner DerekBrunson“The One”Kill Cliff FC · Wilmington, North Carolina
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KevinHolland“Trailblazer”Phalanx MMA Academy · Fort Worth, Texas
Middleweight5 rounds20 Mar 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
23-9
Record
29-15
37
Age
−9 yr28
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
77″
Reach
+4″81″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+717
UFC bouts
10
+4%8/1267% of wins
Finishes
5/862% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Phalanx MMA Academy
Wilmington, North Carolina
From
Fort Worth, Texas
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
Derek Brunson14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 31BODY14%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Kevin Holland3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%1 of 1
14 of 35
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:29
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brunson firstMichael Bell10–8Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Derek Brunson7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 16BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 2
Kevin Holland13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS15%2 of 2
7 of 20
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:09
Control
0:02
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brunson firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Derek Brunson6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
Kevin Holland2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
2 of 5
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:17
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brunson firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Derek Brunson8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 9BODY25%2 of 2LEGS12%1 of 1
Kevin Holland8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%2 of 2
8 of 12
Sig.
strikes
8 of 17
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:46
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brunson firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Derek Brunson8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 8BODY25%2 of 3LEGS50%4 of 4
Kevin Holland10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 15BODY20%2 of 4LEGS10%1 of 1
8 of 15
Sig.
strikes
10 of 20
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:14
Control
1:45
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Brunson firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Derek BrunsonKevin Holland
Official totals — Derek Brunson first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell49–45
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 23 scored, Derek Brunson first · unofficial

Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com50–44
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com50–45
MM AMania.com49–45
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl49–45
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–46
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com49–46
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com49–46
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com49–46
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com49–46
John Pollock POST Wrestling49–46
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com49–46
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com49–46
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com49–46
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Brunson · 41%48-47 Brunson · 16%50-45 Brunson · 14%48-46 Brunson · 9%49-45 Brunson · 8%

133 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.

Derek Brunson

3.14takedowns / 15 min
3.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.79 / 15m
9.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.19 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
36%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Kevin Holland

0.79takedowns / 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.

Derek Brunson↓ −16.4pp
open 52.2%close 35.7%
Kevin Holland↑ +16.4pp
open 47.8%close 64.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Derek Brunson opened at 52.2% and closed at 35.7% (−16.4pp), with Kevin Holland 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
Derek Brunson-12016752.2%35.7%−16.4pp
Kevin Holland100-20647.8%64.3%+16.4pp
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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