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Events · UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland · Punahele Soriano vs Nick Maximov
From the tape · 5 Feb 2022

Punahele Soriano vs Nick Maximov

UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Strickland · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nick Maximov beat Punahele Soriano

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightCo-MainReferee · Mark Smith

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 PunaheleSoriano“Puna”
VSOn the tape
NM
Blue corner NickMaximovNick Diaz Academy · Chico, California
Middleweight3 rounds5 Feb 2022
The story going in
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Maximov.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Soriano.
13-4
Record
8-2
29
Age
−5 yr24
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
72″
Reach
+4″76″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+23
UFC bouts
1
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
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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
Punahele Soriano15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 17BODY27%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Nick Maximov5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 9BODY60%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 21
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 7
0:40
Control
2:16
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Soriano firstMichael Bell10–9Douglas Crosby9–10Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Punahele Soriano21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 27BODY24%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Nick Maximov13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 17BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 32
Sig.
strikes
13 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:54
Control
2:20
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Soriano firstMichael Bell10–9Douglas Crosby9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Punahele Soriano9 sig landed
HEAD11%1 of 2BODY89%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Nick Maximov11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 7BODY9%1 of 1LEGS36%4 of 4
9 of 10
Sig.
strikes
11 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
5 of 5
0:03
Control
4:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 5Ground 4
Judges · this round · Soriano firstMichael Bell9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Punahele SorianoNick Maximov
Official totals — Punahele Soriano first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Douglas Crosby27–30
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 16 scored, Punahele Soriano first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Robert Sargent MMARising.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Soriano · 42%29-28 Maximov · 40%30-27 Maximov · 11%30-27 Soriano · 4%29-25 Maximov · 1%

118 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.

Punahele Soriano

1.97takedowns / 15 min
1.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.16 / 15m
3.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.24 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
45%
0.10 / 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 (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.

Punahele Soriano↑ +2.0pp
open 60.7%close 62.7%
Nick Maximov↓ −2.0pp
open 39.3%close 37.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Punahele Soriano opened at 60.7% and closed at 62.7% (+2.0pp), with Nick Maximov 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
Punahele Soriano-170-18760.7%62.7%+2.0pp
Nick Maximov14515839.3%37.3%−2.0pp
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% · dated 2022-02-06 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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