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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: De Ridder vs. Allen · Kevin Holland vs Mike Malott
From the tape · 18 Oct 2025

Kevin Holland vs Mike Malott

UFC Fight Night: De Ridder vs. Allen · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Result

Mike Malott beat Kevin Holland

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · 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 KevinHolland“Trailblazer”Phalanx MMA Academy · Fort Worth, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MikeMalott“Proper”Team Alpha Male · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Welterweight3 rounds18 Oct 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 27 UFC bouts deep — 21 more than Malott.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
29-15
Record
14-2-1
−1 yr32
Age
33
+2″6' 3"
Height
6' 1"
+8″81″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2127
UFC bouts
6
11/1573% of wins
Finishes
+7%4/580% of wins
Phalanx MMA Academy
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Fort Worth, Texas
From
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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 Holland9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 22BODY33%3 of 5LEGS33%3 of 4
Mike Malott12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 20BODY8%1 of 3LEGS25%3 of 6
9 of 31
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:27
Control
0:30
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holland firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jake Maxim10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kevin Holland23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 55BODY13%3 of 4LEGS35%8 of 11
Mike Malott26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 32BODY31%8 of 9LEGS4%1 of 1
23 of 70
Sig.
strikes
26 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holland firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jake Maxim9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Kevin Holland20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 19BODY15%3 of 4LEGS45%9 of 13
Mike Malott11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 21BODY9%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 36
Sig.
strikes
11 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
2:01
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Holland firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jake Maxim9–10

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
Kevin HollandMike Malott
Official totals — Kevin Holland first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Jake Maxim28–29

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 — 15 scored, Kevin Holland first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Malott · 37%30-27 Malott · 18%29-28 Holland · 10%

97 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
1.63 / 15m
2.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.26 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
50%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Mike Malott

1.63takedowns / 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.

Kevin Holland↑ +5.5pp
open 44.2%close 49.8%
Mike Malott↓ −5.5pp
open 55.8%close 50.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kevin Holland opened at 44.2% and closed at 49.8% (+5.5pp), with Mike Malott 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
Kevin Holland110-11044.2%49.8%+5.5pp
Mike Malott-150-11255.8%50.2%−5.5pp
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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