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Events · UFC 262: Oliveira vs. Chandler · Tony Ferguson vs Beneil Dariush
From the tape · 15 May 2021

Tony Ferguson vs Beneil Dariush

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

Beneil Dariush beat Tony Ferguson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Mike Beltran

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.

TF
Red corner TonyFerguson“El Cucuy”Knuckleheadz MMA · Oxnard, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BeneilDariushKings MMA · Yorba Linda, California
Lightweight3 rounds15 May 2021
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 14 UFC wins.
26-11
Record
23-8-1
37
Age
−5 yr32
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
18
UFC bouts
+119
+16%11/1573% of wins
Finishes
8/1457% of wins
Knuckleheadz MMA
Gym
Kings MMA
Oxnard, California
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
Tony Ferguson7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 17BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Beneil Dariush10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 24BODY10%1 of 1LEGS30%3 of 3
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
10 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Tony Ferguson2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Beneil Dariush6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:05
Control
4:04
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tony Ferguson6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 9BODY50%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Beneil Dariush7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 11BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 12
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:31
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Marcos Rosales9–10

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 · Mike Beltran
Tony FergusonBeneil Dariush
Official totals — Tony Ferguson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide27–30

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 — 18 scored, Tony Ferguson first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com26–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com27–30
Phil Murphy ESPN27–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges27–30
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press27–30
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Dariush · 49%30-26 Dariush · 36%29-28 Dariush · 7%30-25 Dariush · 3%30-24 Dariush · 2%

148 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.

Tony Ferguson

0.39takedowns / 15 min
0.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.21 / 15m
1.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.82 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
38%
0.90 / 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.

Tony Ferguson↓ −11.2pp
open 53.2%close 42.1%
Beneil Dariush↑ +11.2pp
open 46.8%close 57.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tony Ferguson opened at 53.2% and closed at 42.1% (−11.2pp), 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
Tony Ferguson-12512753.2%42.1%−11.2pp
Beneil Dariush105-15446.8%57.9%+11.2pp
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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