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Events · UFC 262: Oliveira vs. Chandler · Lando Vannata vs Mike Grundy
From the tape · 15 May 2021

Lando Vannata vs Mike Grundy

UFC 262: Oliveira vs. Chandler · Houston, Texas, USA
Result

Lando Vannata beat Mike Grundy

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 LandoVannata“Groovy”Elevation Fight Team · Toms River, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
MG
Blue corner MikeGrundyTeam Kaobon Wigan · Wigan, Greater Manchester
Featherweight3 rounds15 May 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Vannata.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Grundy.
12-8-2
Record
12-4
−5 yr29
Age
34
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+810
UFC bouts
2
2/367% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Elevation Fight Team
Gym
Team Kaobon Wigan
Toms River, New Jersey
From
Wigan, Greater Manchester
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
Lando Vannata20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 28BODY35%7 of 10LEGS10%2 of 2
Mike Grundy7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 9BODY29%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 40
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 9
0:00
Control
1:34
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vannata firstChris Lee10–9Patrick Patlán9–10Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Lando Vannata39 sig landed
HEAD49%19 of 52BODY33%13 of 16LEGS18%7 of 8
Mike Grundy9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 18BODY22%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
39 of 76
Sig.
strikes
9 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:00
Control
0:18
Distance 38Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vannata firstChris Lee9–10Patrick Patlán9–10Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Lando Vannata21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 38BODY33%7 of 10LEGS19%4 of 4
Mike Grundy16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 17BODY56%9 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 52
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 6
0:23
Control
0:45
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vannata firstChris Lee10–9Patrick Patlán9–10Marcos Rosales10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Lando VannataMike Grundy
Official totals — Lando Vannata first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Patrick Patlán27–30
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

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 — 19 scored, Lando Vannata first · unofficial

Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Vannata · 60%29-28 Vannata · 27%29-28 Grundy · 8%30-27 Grundy · 3%30-26 Vannata · 1%

131 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.

Lando Vannata

1.24takedowns / 15 min
1.24 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.06 / 15m
3.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
14.50 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
28%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Mike Grundy

4.06takedowns / 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.

Lando Vannata↑ +3.0pp
open 44.7%close 47.7%
Mike Grundy↓ −3.0pp
open 55.3%close 52.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Lando Vannata opened at 44.7% and closed at 47.7% (+3.0pp), with Mike Grundy 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
Lando Vannata115-10044.7%47.7%+3.0pp
Mike Grundy-135-12155.3%52.3%−3.0pp
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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