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Events · UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze · Brian Kelleher vs Kevin Croom
From the tape · 15 Jan 2022

Brian Kelleher vs Kevin Croom

UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brian Kelleher beat Kevin Croom

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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
KC
Blue corner KevinCroom“Crash”Glory MMA & Fitness · Columbia, Missouri
Featherweight3 rounds15 Jan 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Croom.
24-16
Record
21-15
35
Age
−1 yr34
5' 6"
Height
+5″5' 11"
66″
Reach
+7″73″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+1012
UFC bouts
2
Maxum BJJ
Gym
Glory MMA & Fitness
Selden, New York
From
Columbia, Missouri
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⚡ 1 KD Kelleher
Brian Kelleher11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 24BODY36%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Kevin Croom33 sig landed
HEAD52%17 of 68BODY18%6 of 8LEGS30%10 of 12
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
33 of 88
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:17
Control
0:24
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kelleher firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brian Kelleher14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 15BODY36%5 of 8LEGS7%1 of 2
Kevin Croom22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 61BODY23%5 of 7LEGS14%3 of 4
14 of 25
Sig.
strikes
22 of 72
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
0:23
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kelleher firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brian Kelleher13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 19BODY23%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Kevin Croom5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 12BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
13 of 23
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:26
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kelleher firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal 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 · Keith Peterson
Brian KelleherKevin Croom
Official totals — Brian Kelleher first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28

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 — 13 scored, Brian Kelleher first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–26
Combat Press.com30–26
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–26
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA30–26
Jillian DeCoursey30–26
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–26
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Kelleher · 42%30-27 Kelleher · 18%29-28 Kelleher · 16%29-27 Kelleher · 16%

38 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
0.48 / 15m
4.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.60 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
5%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Kevin Croom

0.48takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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↑ +2.5pp
open 74.1%close 76.7%
Kevin Croom↓ −2.5pp
open 25.9%close 23.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brian Kelleher opened at 74.1% and closed at 76.7% (+2.5pp), with Kevin Croom 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-325-40474.1%76.7%+2.5pp
Kevin Croom27531025.9%23.3%−2.5pp
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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