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History · 2021 · UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Dan Hooker vs Nasrat Haqparast
From the tape · 25 Sep 2021

Dan Hooker vs Nasrat Haqparast

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

Dan Hooker beat Nasrat Haqparast

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 DanHooker“The Hangman”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
Blue corner NasratHaqparastTristar Gym · Rabat
Lightweight3 rounds25 Sep 2021
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Carries 14 points more striking defence than Hooker.
24-14
Record
18-7
31
Age
−5 yr26
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
+916
UFC bouts
7
+60%8/1080% of wins
Finishes
1/520% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
Tristar Gym
Auckland
From
Rabat
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
Dan Hooker26 sig landed
HEAD23%6 of 38BODY38%10 of 12LEGS38%10 of 13
Nasrat Haqparast7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 20BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 63
Sig.
strikes
7 of 21
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hooker firstMichael Bell10–9Adalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Dan Hooker29 sig landed
HEAD45%13 of 38BODY48%14 of 16LEGS7%2 of 2
Nasrat Haqparast11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 22BODY36%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
29 of 56
Sig.
strikes
11 of 27
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:57
Control
0:03
Distance 16Clinch 11Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hooker firstMichael Bell10–9Adalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dan Hooker18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 21BODY17%3 of 4LEGS44%8 of 9
Nasrat Haqparast9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 14BODY44%4 of 5LEGS11%1 of 2
18 of 34
Sig.
strikes
9 of 21
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:31
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hooker firstMichael Bell10–9Adalaide Byrd10–8Sal D'Amato10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Dan HookerNasrat Haqparast
Official totals — Dan Hooker first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–26
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 16 scored, Dan Hooker first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Greg Rosenstein The Athletic30–27
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Jillian DeCoursey30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
Scott Fontana New York Post30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Hooker · 54%30-26 Hooker · 33%29-28 Hooker · 9%29-27 Hooker · 2%30-29 Hooker · 2%

66 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.

Dan Hooker

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
2.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.70 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
20%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Nasrat Haqparast

0.34takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Dan Hooker vs Nasrat Haqparast.

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