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Events · UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus · Matheus Nicolau vs David Dvorak
From the tape · 26 Mar 2022

Matheus Nicolau vs David Dvorak

UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus · Columbus, Ohio, USA
Result

Matheus Nicolau beat David Dvorak

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chad Trukovich

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 MatheusNicolauNova Uniao · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DavidDvorak“Undertaker”All Sports Academy · Hradec Kralove
Flyweight3 rounds26 Mar 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Dvorak.
19-6-1
Record
20-6
29
Age
29
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
66″
Reach
+2″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+36
UFC bouts
3
1/520% of wins
Finishes
+13%1/333% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
All Sports Academy
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
From
Hradec Kralove
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
Matheus Nicolau6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 12BODY33%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
David Dvorak12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 21BODY0%0 of 2LEGS17%2 of 3
6 of 16
Sig.
strikes
12 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nicolau firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Todd Schwarz9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Nicolau
Matheus Nicolau17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 26BODY29%5 of 6LEGS18%3 of 3
David Dvorak19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 36BODY26%5 of 7LEGS21%4 of 5
17 of 35
Sig.
strikes
19 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:46
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nicolau firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Todd Schwarz10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matheus Nicolau13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 24BODY23%3 of 4LEGS15%2 of 2
David Dvorak8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 30BODY12%1 of 4LEGS25%2 of 2
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
8 of 36
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
1:25
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Nicolau firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Todd Schwarz10–9

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 · Chad Trukovich
Matheus NicolauDavid Dvorak
Official totals — Matheus Nicolau first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Todd Schwarz29–28

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 — 14 scored, Matheus Nicolau first · unofficial

Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Dvorak · 54%29-28 Nicolau · 29%30-27 Nicolau · 10%29-27 Nicolau · 2%

110 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.

Matheus Nicolau

1.22takedowns / 15 min
1.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.58 / 15m
2.84 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.93 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
30%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

David Dvorak

0.58takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Matheus Nicolau↓ −3.9pp
open 50.0%close 46.1%
David Dvorak↑ +3.9pp
open 50.0%close 53.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matheus Nicolau opened at 50.0% and closed at 46.1% (−3.9pp), with David Dvorak 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
Matheus Nicolau-11010750.0%46.1%−3.9pp
David Dvorak-110-13050.0%53.9%+3.9pp
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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