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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall · Marc Diakiese vs Damir Hadzovic
From the tape · 23 Jul 2022

Marc Diakiese vs Damir Hadzovic

UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Marc Diakiese beat Damir Hadzovic

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

MD
Red corner MarcDiakiese“Bonecrusher”Great Britain Top Team · Doncaster, South Yorkshire
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DamirHadzovic“The Bosnian Bomber”Arte Suave Copenhagen · Gorazde
Lightweight3 rounds23 Jul 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 32 points more takedown defence than Hadzovic.
17-7
Record
14-8
−6 yr29
Age
35
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+311
UFC bouts
8
2/633% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/450% of wins
Great Britain Top Team
Gym
Arte Suave Copenhagen
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
From
Gorazde
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
Marc Diakiese2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
Damir Hadzovic1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
2 of 3
Sig.
strikes
1 of 1
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:45
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstAnders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Cezary Wojciechowski10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Marc Diakiese8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 16BODY0%0 of 1LEGS25%2 of 2
Damir Hadzovic2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
2 of 5
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:17
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstAnders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–8Cezary Wojciechowski10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marc Diakiese3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS67%2 of 2
Damir Hadzovic2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
3 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:33
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Diakiese firstAnders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Cezary Wojciechowski10–8

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
Marc DiakieseDamir Hadzovic
Official totals — Marc Diakiese first
JudgeTotal
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide30–26
Cezary Wojciechowski30–26

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 — 10 scored, Marc Diakiese first · unofficial

Drake Riggs MMAMania.com30–24
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Alex Behunin Cageside Press30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Diakiese · 60%30-26 Diakiese · 16%30-25 Diakiese · 16%30-24 Diakiese · 8%

25 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.

Marc Diakiese

3.29takedowns / 15 min
3.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.91 / 15m
7.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.69 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
54%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Damir Hadzovic

0.91takedowns / 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.

Marc Diakiese vs Damir Hadzovic.

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