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Events · UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic · Bo Nickal vs Paul Craig
From the tape · 16 Nov 2024

Bo Nickal vs Paul Craig

UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic · New York City, New York, USA
Result

Bo Nickal beat Paul Craig

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 BoNickalAmerican Top Team Happy Valley · State College, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
PC
Blue corner PaulCraig“Bearjew”Scottish Hit Squad · Coatbridge
Middleweight3 rounds16 Nov 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Every one of Nickal’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Every one of Craig’s 9 UFC wins came inside the distance.
9-1
Record
17-10-1
−8 yr28
Age
36
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
76″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+1518
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
9/9100% of wins
American Top Team Happy Valley
Gym
Scottish Hit Squad
State College, Pennsylvania
From
Coatbridge
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
Bo Nickal16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 17BODY19%3 of 5LEGS50%8 of 9
Paul Craig13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 24BODY31%4 of 6LEGS38%5 of 5
16 of 31
Sig.
strikes
13 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nickal firstChris Bolinski10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Bryan Miner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Bo Nickal22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 13BODY36%8 of 9LEGS18%4 of 4
Paul Craig21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 33BODY38%8 of 12LEGS10%2 of 3
22 of 26
Sig.
strikes
21 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nickal firstChris Bolinski10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Bryan Miner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Bo Nickal16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 20BODY12%2 of 2LEGS31%5 of 6
Paul Craig13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 36BODY15%2 of 5LEGS38%5 of 5
16 of 28
Sig.
strikes
13 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nickal firstChris Bolinski10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Bryan Miner10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Bo NickalPaul Craig
Official totals — Bo Nickal first
JudgeTotal
Chris Bolinski30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% 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 — 18 scored, Bo Nickal first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nickal · 44%30-27 Nickal · 26%29-28 Craig · 23%30-27 Craig · 3%

193 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.

Bo Nickal

3.10takedowns / 15 min
3.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.43 / 15m
5.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.94 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
18%
2.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Paul Craig

1.43takedowns / 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.

Bo Nickal↑ +2.0pp
open 86.3%close 88.3%
Paul Craig↓ −2.0pp
open 13.7%close 11.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Bo Nickal opened at 86.3% and closed at 88.3% (+2.0pp), with Paul Craig 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
Bo Nickal-910-124586.3%88.3%+2.0pp
Paul Craig60071813.7%11.7%−2.0pp
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% · dated 2024-11-17 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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