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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate · Michael Chiesa vs Sean Brady
From the tape · 20 Nov 2021

Michael Chiesa vs Sean Brady

UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Sean Brady beat Michael Chiesa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · 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 MichaelChiesa“Maverick”Sikjitsu · Spokane, Washington
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SeanBradyRenzo Gracie Philly · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Welterweight3 rounds20 Nov 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Brady.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
20-7
Record
19-2
33
Age
−5 yr28
+3″6' 1"
Height
5' 10"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1216
UFC bouts
4
+5%6/1155% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Sikjitsu
Gym
Renzo Gracie Philly
Spokane, Washington
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Michael Chiesa4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 12BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Sean Brady10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS70%7 of 8
4 of 14
Sig.
strikes
10 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
1:43
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstEric Colón9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Chiesa8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 17BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Sean Brady5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 15BODY40%2 of 2LEGS20%1 of 1
8 of 18
Sig.
strikes
5 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:14
Control
2:41
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstEric Colón9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Chiesa17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 15BODY41%7 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Sean Brady3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
17 of 25
Sig.
strikes
3 of 5
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:39
Control
3:21
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chiesa firstEric Colón10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Michael ChiesaSean Brady
Official totals — Michael Chiesa first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Douglas Crosby28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 17 scored, Michael Chiesa first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Lev Pisarsky Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Jillian DeCoursey28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Daniel Yanofsky Fightful.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Brady · 48%29-28 Chiesa · 26%30-27 Brady · 13%30-27 Chiesa · 4%

124 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.

Michael Chiesa

3.11takedowns / 15 min
3.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.58 / 15m
6.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.02 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
51%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Sean Brady

3.58takedowns / 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.

Michael Chiesa↓ −6.1pp
open 43.8%close 37.7%
Sean Brady↑ +6.1pp
open 56.2%close 62.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Chiesa opened at 43.8% and closed at 37.7% (−6.1pp), with Sean Brady 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
Michael Chiesa12015443.8%37.7%−6.1pp
Sean Brady-140-18756.2%62.3%+6.1pp
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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