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Events · UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya · Tom Nolan vs Alex Reyes
From the tape · 17 Aug 2024

Tom Nolan vs Alex Reyes

UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya · Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Result

Tom Nolan beat Alex Reyes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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 TomNolan“Big Train”Team Compton Training Centre · Brisbane, Queensland
VSOn the tape
AR
Blue corner AlexReyes“The Executioner”Hollywood, California
Lightweight3 rounds17 Aug 2024
The story going in
  • Carries 71 points more takedown defence than Reyes.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
11-1
Record
13-5
−13 yr24
Age
37
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
73″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
Brisbane, Queensland
From
Hollywood, 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
Tom Nolan23 sig landed
HEAD43%10 of 40BODY43%10 of 19LEGS13%3 of 3
Alex Reyes23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 22BODY30%7 of 13LEGS35%8 of 8
23 of 62
Sig.
strikes
23 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
1:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Nolan firstCharlie Keech10–9David Lethaby10–9Mick Meany9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tom Nolan32 sig landed
HEAD56%18 of 42BODY31%10 of 15LEGS12%4 of 6
Alex Reyes27 sig landed
HEAD48%13 of 37BODY26%7 of 10LEGS26%7 of 8
32 of 63
Sig.
strikes
27 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:56
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nolan firstCharlie Keech10–9David Lethaby10–9Mick Meany10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Tom Nolan29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 30BODY41%12 of 15LEGS17%5 of 6
Alex Reyes19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 28BODY37%7 of 10LEGS16%3 of 4
29 of 51
Sig.
strikes
19 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:22
Control
1:51
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nolan firstCharlie Keech10–9David Lethaby10–9Mick Meany10–9

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
Tom NolanAlex Reyes
Official totals — Tom Nolan first
JudgeTotal
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Mick Meany29–28

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 — 11 scored, Tom Nolan first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Nolan · 62%29-28 Nolan · 25%30-26 Nolan · 5%29-28 Reyes · 5%29-27 Nolan · 2%

40 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.

Tom Nolan

0.74takedowns / 15 min
0.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.50 / 15m
3.36 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.36 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
28%
1.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Alex Reyes

1.50takedowns / 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.

Tom Nolan↑ +0.8pp
open 88.0%close 88.8%
Alex Reyes↓ −0.8pp
open 12.0%close 11.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tom Nolan opened at 88.0% and closed at 88.8% (+0.8pp), with Alex Reyes 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
Tom Nolan-1100-131788.0%88.8%+0.8pp
Alex Reyes70075112.0%11.2%−0.8pp
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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