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History · 2022 · UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Nate Diaz vs Tony Ferguson
From the tape · 10 Sep 2022

Nate Diaz vs Tony Ferguson

UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nate Diaz beat Tony Ferguson

Method
Submission
Round
4 of 5
Clock
2:52
WelterweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

ND
Red corner NateDiazCesar Gracie Fight Team · Stockton, California
VSOn the tape
TF
Blue corner TonyFerguson“El Cucuy”Knuckleheadz MMA · Oxnard, California
Welterweight5 rounds10 Sep 2022
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
22-13
Record
26-11
−1 yr37
Age
38
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
76″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+626
UFC bouts
20
11/1573% of wins
Finishes
11/1573% of wins
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
Knuckleheadz MMA
Stockton, California
From
Oxnard, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

4 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Nate Diaz22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 36BODY27%6 of 11LEGS18%4 of 4
Tony Ferguson19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 28BODY37%7 of 8LEGS37%7 of 9
22 of 51
Sig.
strikes
19 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Nate Diaz28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 49BODY25%7 of 8LEGS7%2 of 2
Tony Ferguson20 sig landed
HEAD25%5 of 35BODY30%6 of 6LEGS45%9 of 10
28 of 59
Sig.
strikes
20 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Nate Diaz26 sig landed
HEAD81%21 of 48BODY8%2 of 5LEGS12%3 of 3
Tony Ferguson30 sig landed
HEAD40%12 of 31BODY17%5 of 5LEGS43%13 of 15
26 of 56
Sig.
strikes
30 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 42:52 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:52
Nate Diaz25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 45BODY24%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Tony Ferguson11 sig landed
HEAD9%1 of 12BODY45%5 of 8LEGS45%5 of 5
25 of 51
Sig.
strikes
11 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:08
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Nate Diaz

Round
4
Clock
2:52
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Nate Diaz

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.39 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.11 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
35%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Tony Ferguson

0.39takedowns / 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.

Nate Diaz↓ −16.1pp
open 58.8%close 42.7%
Tony Ferguson↑ +16.1pp
open 41.2%close 57.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nate Diaz opened at 58.8% and closed at 42.7% (−16.1pp), with Tony Ferguson 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
Nate Diaz-15512458.8%42.7%−16.1pp
Tony Ferguson135-14941.2%57.3%+16.1pp
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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