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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum · Brian Kelleher vs Domingo Pilarte
From the tape · 21 Aug 2021

Brian Kelleher vs Domingo Pilarte

UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Gastelum · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brian Kelleher beat Domingo Pilarte

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

BK
Red corner BrianKelleher“Boom”Maxum BJJ · Selden, New York
VSOn the tape
DP
Blue corner DomingoPilarte“Son of Fire”Revolution Dojo · Houston, Texas
Bantamweight3 rounds21 Aug 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Pilarte.
24-16
Record
8-3
35
Age
−4 yr31
5' 6"
Height
+6″6' 0"
66″
Reach
+7″73″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
+911
UFC bouts
2
Maxum BJJ
Gym
Revolution Dojo
Selden, New York
From
Houston, 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Brian Kelleher13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 16BODY8%1 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
Domingo Pilarte0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

13 of 19
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:50
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kelleher firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Brian Kelleher4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Domingo Pilarte2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
4 of 8
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:08
Control
1:29
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Kelleher firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brian Kelleher11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 11BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
Domingo Pilarte1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 13
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:51
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kelleher firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Brian KelleherDomingo Pilarte
Official totals — Brian Kelleher first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 14 scored, Brian Kelleher first · unofficial

Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–25
MM AMania.com30–25
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–26
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com30–26
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Kelleher · 42%30-25 Kelleher · 36%30-26 Kelleher · 22%

36 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.

Brian Kelleher

1.68takedowns / 15 min
1.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.20 / 15m
4.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.86 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
42%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Domingo Pilarte

1.20takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Brian Kelleher↑ +6.0pp
open 56.2%close 62.2%
Domingo Pilarte↓ −6.0pp
open 43.8%close 37.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brian Kelleher opened at 56.2% and closed at 62.2% (+6.0pp), with Domingo Pilarte 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
Brian Kelleher-140-18456.2%62.2%+6.0pp
Domingo Pilarte12015443.8%37.8%−6.0pp
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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