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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov · Kelvin Gastelum vs Daniel Rodriguez
From the tape · 22 Jun 2024

Kelvin Gastelum vs Daniel Rodriguez

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov · Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Result

Kelvin Gastelum beat Daniel Rodriguez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Rich Mitchell

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 KelvinGastelumFight Ready · Yuma, Arizona
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DanielRodriguez“D-Rod”10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu · Alhambra, California
Middleweight3 rounds22 Jun 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 22 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Rodriguez.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
21-11
Record
20-6
−5 yr32
Age
37
5' 9"
Height
+4″6' 1"
71″
Reach
+3″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1222
UFC bouts
10
5/1242% of wins
Finishes
+1%3/743% of wins
Fight Ready
Gym
10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu
Yuma, Arizona
From
Alhambra, 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
Kelvin Gastelum44 sig landed
HEAD61%27 of 70BODY14%6 of 10LEGS25%11 of 13
Daniel Rodriguez46 sig landed
HEAD54%25 of 67BODY33%15 of 17LEGS13%6 of 7
44 of 93
Sig.
strikes
46 of 91
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 44Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 46Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kelvin Gastelum37 sig landed
HEAD73%27 of 72BODY11%4 of 6LEGS16%6 of 8
Daniel Rodriguez53 sig landed
HEAD72%38 of 97BODY25%13 of 14LEGS4%2 of 2
37 of 86
Sig.
strikes
53 of 113
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 53Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kelvin Gastelum31 sig landed
HEAD74%23 of 51BODY13%4 of 4LEGS13%4 of 4
Daniel Rodriguez28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 50BODY29%8 of 10LEGS4%1 of 1
31 of 59
Sig.
strikes
28 of 61
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:17
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Rich Mitchell
Kelvin GastelumDaniel Rodriguez
Official totals — Kelvin Gastelum first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide30–27

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 — 10 scored, Kelvin Gastelum first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Gastelum · 36%29-28 Rodriguez · 35%30-27 Gastelum · 28%

88 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.

Kelvin Gastelum

1.04takedowns / 15 min
1.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.51 / 15m
2.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.02 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
50%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Daniel Rodriguez

0.51takedowns / 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.

Kelvin Gastelum↓ −1.4pp
open 65.7%close 64.3%
Daniel Rodriguez↑ +1.4pp
open 34.3%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kelvin Gastelum opened at 65.7% and closed at 64.3% (−1.4pp), with Daniel Rodriguez 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
Kelvin Gastelum-218-20865.7%64.3%−1.4pp
Daniel Rodriguez18016734.3%35.7%+1.4pp
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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