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History · 2023 · UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana · Kyle Nelson vs Blake Bilder
From the tape · 10 Jun 2023

Kyle Nelson vs Blake Bilder

UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Result

Kyle Nelson beat Blake Bilder

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Sal Ram

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 KyleNelson“The Monster”House of Champions MMA · Huntsville, Ontario
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BlakeBilder“El Animal”Spartan Martial Arts · St. Paul, Minnesota
Featherweight3 rounds10 Jun 2023
17-7-1
Record
8-2-1
32
Age
32
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Switch
Stance
Switch
+56
UFC bouts
1
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
House of Champions MMA
Gym
Spartan Martial Arts
Huntsville, Ontario
From
St. Paul, Minnesota
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
Kyle Nelson19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 33BODY32%6 of 11LEGS16%3 of 3
Blake Bilder22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 44BODY0%0 landedLEGS32%7 of 7
19 of 47
Sig.
strikes
22 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:18
Control
0:22
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstMichael Bell10–9Jason Darrah10–9Jerin Valel10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kyle Nelson19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 24BODY26%5 of 8LEGS32%6 of 7
Blake Bilder12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 20BODY8%1 of 2LEGS58%7 of 8
19 of 39
Sig.
strikes
12 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:14
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstMichael Bell10–9Jason Darrah10–9Jerin Valel10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kyle Nelson21 sig landed
HEAD29%6 of 19BODY43%9 of 12LEGS29%6 of 9
Blake Bilder11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 32BODY9%1 of 2LEGS27%3 of 5
21 of 40
Sig.
strikes
11 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:03
Control
1:09
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstMichael Bell10–9Jason Darrah9–10Jerin Valel10–9

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 · Sal Ram
Kyle NelsonBlake Bilder
Official totals — Kyle Nelson first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Jason Darrah29–28
Jerin Valel30–27

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, Kyle Nelson first · unofficial

Combat Press.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nelson · 48%30-27 Nelson · 42%29-28 Bilder · 6%30-27 Bilder · 2%

50 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.

Kyle Nelson

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.31 / 15m
5.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.43 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
7%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Blake Bilder

0.31takedowns / 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.

Kyle Nelson↓ −2.3pp
open 34.5%close 32.3%
Blake Bilder↑ +2.3pp
open 65.5%close 67.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kyle Nelson opened at 34.5% and closed at 32.3% (−2.3pp), with Blake Bilder 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
Kyle Nelson18019734.5%32.3%−2.3pp
Blake Bilder-210-24165.5%67.7%+2.3pp
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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