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Events · UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Cody Brundage vs Nick Maximov
From the tape · 25 Sep 2021

Cody Brundage vs Nick Maximov

UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nick Maximov beat Cody Brundage

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain 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.

Red corner CodyBrundageFactory X · Brighton, Michigan
VSOn the tape
NM
Blue corner NickMaximovNick Diaz Academy · Chico, California
Middleweight3 rounds25 Sep 2021
The story going in
  • Carries 31 points more takedown defence than Maximov.
  • Averages 2.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Brundage.
12-9-1
Record
8-2
27
Age
−4 yr23
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
72″
Reach
+4″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Factory X
Gym
Nick Diaz Academy
Brighton, Michigan
From
Chico, California
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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 action1 sub attempt
Cody Brundage10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 19BODY20%2 of 3LEGS20%2 of 2
Nick Maximov11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 26BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 2
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
11 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 8
0:21
Control
2:01
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Brundage firstSal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10Bryan Miner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cody Brundage1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
Nick Maximov1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
1 of 4
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:05
Control
4:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brundage firstSal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10Bryan Miner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cody Brundage17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 24BODY6%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Nick Maximov2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 8BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 25
Sig.
strikes
2 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 6
1:29
Control
2:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Brundage firstSal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9Bryan Miner10–9

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
Cody BrundageNick Maximov
Official totals — Cody Brundage first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

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 — 11 scored, Cody Brundage first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Jillian DeCoursey27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Maximov · 58%29-28 Brundage · 29%29-27 Maximov · 5%30-27 Maximov · 5%

41 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.

Cody Brundage

1.80takedowns / 15 min
1.80 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.16 / 15m
4.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.24 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
45%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Nick Maximov

4.16takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Cody Brundageclose only
no opening line on recordclose 44.5%
Nick Maximovclose only
no opening line on recordclose 55.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Cody Brundage 44.5%, Nick Maximov 55.5%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Cody Brundage11544.5%
Nick Maximov-350-13855.5%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Cody Brundage, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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