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History · 2022 · UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 · Drakkar Klose vs Rafa Garcia
From the tape · 30 Jul 2022

Drakkar Klose vs Rafa Garcia

UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Drakkar Klose beat Rafa Garcia

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

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 DrakkarKloseMMA Lab · South Haven, Michigan
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RafaGarcia“Gifted”Mexicali, Baja California
Lightweight3 rounds30 Jul 2022
The story going in
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Garcia.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Garcia.
  • Averages 1.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Klose.
16-3-1
Record
19-4
34
Age
−7 yr27
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+48
UFC bouts
4
1/617% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
South Haven, Michigan
From
Mexicali, Baja California
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
Drakkar Klose19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 17BODY47%9 of 10LEGS16%3 of 3
Rafa Garcia13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 18BODY15%2 of 2LEGS15%2 of 2
19 of 30
Sig.
strikes
13 of 22
2 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:49
Control
0:06
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Klose firstSteve Armstrong10–9Kent Basinger10–9Aaron Menard10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Drakkar Klose14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 18BODY43%6 of 7LEGS21%3 of 4
Rafa Garcia5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 8BODY60%3 of 3LEGS20%1 of 1
14 of 29
Sig.
strikes
5 of 12
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:16
Control
2:11
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Klose firstSteve Armstrong9–10Kent Basinger9–10Aaron Menard9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Drakkar Klose28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 40BODY43%12 of 12LEGS14%4 of 4
Rafa Garcia16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 19BODY19%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
28 of 56
Sig.
strikes
16 of 23
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 6
0:00
Control
0:37
Distance 16Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Klose firstSteve Armstrong10–9Kent Basinger10–9Aaron Menard10–9

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 · Jacob Montalvo
Drakkar KloseRafa Garcia
Official totals — Drakkar Klose first
JudgeTotal
Steve Armstrong29–28
Kent Basinger29–28
Aaron Menard29–28

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 — 15 scored, Drakkar Klose first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports29–28
Alex Behunin Cageside Press29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Klose · 75%30-27 Klose · 17%29-28 Garcia · 6%30-27 Garcia · 2%

48 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.

Drakkar Klose

1.49takedowns / 15 min
1.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.22 / 15m
5.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.16 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
45%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Rafa Garcia

3.22takedowns / 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

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.

Drakkar Klose↑ +2.5pp
open 62.8%close 65.3%
Rafa Garcia↓ −2.5pp
open 37.2%close 34.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Drakkar Klose opened at 62.8% and closed at 65.3% (+2.5pp), with Rafa Garcia 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
Drakkar Klose-185-21362.8%65.3%+2.5pp
Rafa Garcia16017637.2%34.7%−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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