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History · 2021 · UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Leon Edwards vs Nate Diaz
From the tape · 12 Jun 2021

Leon Edwards vs Nate Diaz

UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Leon Edwards beat Nate Diaz

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

Red corner LeonEdwards“Rocky”Team Renegade · Erdington, West Midlands
VSOn the tape
ND
Blue corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
Welterweight5 rounds12 Jun 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Carries 22 points more takedown defence than Diaz.
  • 25 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Edwards.
22-6
Record
22-13
−7 yr29
Age
36
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
+2″76″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
13
UFC bouts
+1225
3/1030% of wins
Finishes
+43%11/1573% of wins
Team Renegade
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Erdington, West Midlands
From
Stockton, 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Leon Edwards13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS38%5 of 5
Nate Diaz10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 15BODY40%4 of 4LEGS20%2 of 4
13 of 19
Sig.
strikes
10 of 23
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:32
Control
0:03
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstDerek Cleary10–9Brad Frank10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Leon Edwards17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 21BODY6%1 of 3LEGS35%6 of 6
Nate Diaz13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 20BODY38%5 of 7LEGS15%2 of 3
17 of 30
Sig.
strikes
13 of 30
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:09
Control
0:16
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstDerek Cleary10–9Brad Frank10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Leon Edwards13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 11BODY8%1 of 1LEGS23%3 of 3
Nate Diaz3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 10BODY67%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 15
Sig.
strikes
3 of 12
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:18
Control
0:26
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstDerek Cleary10–9Brad Frank10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Leon Edwards18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 26BODY11%2 of 4LEGS33%6 of 6
Nate Diaz19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 36BODY11%2 of 5LEGS21%4 of 4
18 of 36
Sig.
strikes
19 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:14
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstDerek Cleary10–9Brad Frank10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Leon Edwards16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 26BODY12%2 of 3LEGS19%3 of 3
Nate Diaz31 sig landed
HEAD90%28 of 48BODY10%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
16 of 32
Sig.
strikes
31 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:54
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstDerek Cleary9–10Brad Frank9–10Junichiro 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
Leon EdwardsNate Diaz
Official totals — Leon Edwards first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Brad Frank49–46
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 — 21 scored, Leon Edwards first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–46
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Phil Murphy ESPN49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com49–46
Nick Baldwin theScore49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges49–46
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
John Pollock POST Wrestling49–46
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com49–46
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily49–46
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press49–46
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com49–46
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com49–46
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Edwards · 49%48-46 Edwards · 15%48-47 Edwards · 7%50-45 Edwards · 4%

445 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.

Leon Edwards

1.25takedowns / 15 min
1.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.05 / 15m
3.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.50 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
30%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Leon Edwards↑ +9.0pp
open 70.1%close 79.1%
Nate Diaz↓ −9.0pp
open 29.9%close 20.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Leon Edwards opened at 70.1% and closed at 79.1% (+9.0pp), with Nate Diaz 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
Leon Edwards-275-47870.1%79.1%+9.0pp
Nate Diaz22035929.9%20.9%−9.0pp
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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