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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira · Themba Gorimbo vs Niko Price
From the tape · 12 Oct 2024

Themba Gorimbo vs Niko Price

UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Taira · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Themba Gorimbo beat Niko Price

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 ThembaGorimbo“The Answer”MMA Masters · Masvingo
VSOn the tape
Blue corner NikoPrice“The Hybrid”Futures MMA · Cape Coral, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds12 Oct 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Averages 3.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Price.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Gorimbo.
14-7
Record
16-11
−2 yr33
Age
35
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+1317
1/333% of wins
Finishes
+42%6/875% of wins
MMA Masters
Gym
Futures MMA
Masvingo
From
Cape Coral, Florida
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 action1 sub attempt
Themba Gorimbo32 sig landed
HEAD66%21 of 55BODY6%2 of 3LEGS28%9 of 9
Niko Price6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 14BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 2
32 of 67
Sig.
strikes
6 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:46
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gorimbo firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Themba Gorimbo32 sig landed
HEAD66%21 of 37BODY19%6 of 11LEGS16%5 of 5
Niko Price9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 26BODY11%1 of 3LEGS11%1 of 2
32 of 53
Sig.
strikes
9 of 31
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:52
Control
1:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gorimbo firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Themba Gorimbo4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 5BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
Niko Price1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
4 of 7
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:36
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gorimbo firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Themba GorimboNiko Price
Official totals — Themba Gorimbo first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 8 scored, Themba Gorimbo first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gorimbo · 75%30-26 Gorimbo · 21%29-28 Gorimbo · 4%

24 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.

Themba Gorimbo

4.52takedowns / 15 min
4.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.06 / 15m
7.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.53 / 15m
62%
ACCURACY
30%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Niko Price

1.06takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Themba Gorimbo↑ +4.2pp
open 68.8%close 72.9%
Niko Price↓ −4.2pp
open 31.2%close 27.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Themba Gorimbo opened at 68.8% and closed at 72.9% (+4.2pp), with Niko Price 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
Themba Gorimbo-275-33868.8%72.9%+4.2pp
Niko Price20024931.2%27.1%−4.2pp
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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