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Events · UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Brady · Gunnar Nelson vs Kevin Holland
From the tape · 22 Mar 2025

Gunnar Nelson vs Kevin Holland

UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Brady · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Kevin Holland beat Gunnar Nelson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Daniel Movahedi

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 GunnarNelson“Gunni”Reykjavik
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KevinHolland“Trailblazer”Phalanx MMA Academy · Fort Worth, Texas
Welterweight3 rounds22 Mar 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 10 of 13 UFC wins.
19-6-1
Record
29-15
36
Age
−4 yr32
5' 11"
Height
+4″6' 3"
72″
Reach
+9″81″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
15
UFC bouts
+924
+3%8/1080% of wins
Finishes
10/1377% of wins
Reykjavik
From
Fort Worth, Texas
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⚡ 1 KD Holland
Gunnar Nelson5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY20%1 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
Kevin Holland19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 24BODY16%3 of 5LEGS32%6 of 8
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
19 of 37
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:55
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 6
Judges · this round · Nelson firstDavid Lethaby9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10Darryl Ransom9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Gunnar Nelson3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY67%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Kevin Holland17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 15BODY35%6 of 6LEGS12%2 of 2
3 of 6
Sig.
strikes
17 of 23
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:22
Control
0:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 8
Judges · this round · Nelson firstDavid Lethaby9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10Darryl Ransom9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Gunnar Nelson7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 8BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Kevin Holland19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 18BODY32%6 of 9LEGS11%2 of 2
7 of 9
Sig.
strikes
19 of 29
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:12
Control
0:27
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 12Ground 4
Judges · this round · Nelson firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Darryl Ransom10–9

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 · Daniel Movahedi
Gunnar NelsonKevin Holland
Official totals — Gunnar Nelson first
JudgeTotal
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide28–29

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, Gunnar Nelson first · unofficial

Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com26–30
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Erich Richter NY Post28–29
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Mathis Desjardins Cageside Press28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Holland · 40%30-27 Holland · 30%29-28 Nelson · 10%29-27 Holland · 6%30-26 Holland · 6%

124 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.

Gunnar Nelson

2.00takedowns / 15 min
2.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.79 / 15m
3.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.19 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
36%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Kevin Holland

0.79takedowns / 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.

Gunnar Nelson↓ −3.1pp
open 57.7%close 54.6%
Kevin Holland↑ +3.1pp
open 42.3%close 45.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gunnar Nelson opened at 57.7% and closed at 54.6% (−3.1pp), with Kevin Holland 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
Gunnar Nelson-163-13257.7%54.6%−3.1pp
Kevin Holland12011142.3%45.4%+3.1pp
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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