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History · 2025 · UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · Kevin Holland vs Daniel Rodriguez
From the tape · 19 Jul 2025

Kevin Holland vs Daniel Rodriguez

UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Result

Daniel Rodriguez beat Kevin Holland

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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 KevinHolland“Trailblazer”Phalanx MMA Academy · Fort Worth, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DanielRodriguez“D-Rod”10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu · Alhambra, California
Welterweight3 rounds19 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
29-15
Record
20-6
−6 yr32
Age
38
+2″6' 3"
Height
6' 1"
+7″81″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1326
UFC bouts
13
+29%11/1573% of wins
Finishes
4/944% of wins
Phalanx MMA Academy
Gym
10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu
Fort Worth, Texas
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
Kevin Holland40 sig landed
HEAD50%20 of 50BODY15%6 of 12LEGS35%14 of 21
Daniel Rodriguez29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 30BODY28%8 of 19LEGS31%9 of 11
40 of 83
Sig.
strikes
29 of 60
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 39Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holland firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 2 KD Rodriguez
Kevin Holland12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 21BODY25%3 of 4LEGS8%1 of 3
Daniel Rodriguez31 sig landed
HEAD87%27 of 51BODY3%1 of 1LEGS10%3 of 3
12 of 28
Sig.
strikes
31 of 55
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:05
Control
1:40
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 14
Judges · this round · Holland firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD HollandEnded 5:00
Kevin Holland30 sig landed
HEAD83%25 of 55BODY13%4 of 6LEGS3%1 of 1
Daniel Rodriguez17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 25BODY24%4 of 6LEGS18%3 of 3
30 of 62
Sig.
strikes
17 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:50
Control
1:54
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 12Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Holland firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Mike Beltran
Kevin HollandDaniel Rodriguez
Official totals — Kevin Holland first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 21 scored, Kevin Holland first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
E. Casey Leydon27–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Simon Samano MMAJunkie.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Val Dewar Cageside Press28–29
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com28–29
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rodriguez · 41%29-28 Holland · 39%29-27 Rodriguez · 8%28-27 Rodriguez · 3%

155 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.

Kevin Holland

0.79takedowns / 15 min
0.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.51 / 15m
2.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.02 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
50%
0.60 / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Kevin Holland vs Daniel Rodriguez.

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