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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: De Ridder vs. Allen · Kyle Nelson vs Matt Frevola
From the tape · 18 Oct 2025

Kyle Nelson vs Matt Frevola

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

Kyle Nelson beat Matt Frevola

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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 KyleNelson“The Monster”House of Champions MMA · Huntsville, Ontario
VSOn the tape
MF
Blue corner MattFrevola“The SteamRolla”Gracie Tampa South · Huntington, New York
Lightweight3 rounds18 Oct 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Frevola.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
17-7-1
Record
11-6-1
−1 yr34
Age
35
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
71″
Reach
71″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+111
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+10%3/560% of wins
House of Champions MMA
Gym
Gracie Tampa South
Huntsville, Ontario
From
Huntington, New York
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 Nelson
Kyle Nelson23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 47BODY17%4 of 6LEGS9%2 of 2
Matt Frevola15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 37BODY27%4 of 10LEGS27%4 of 7
23 of 55
Sig.
strikes
15 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:28
Control
1:01
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jake Maxim10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kyle Nelson29 sig landed
HEAD62%18 of 39BODY21%6 of 12LEGS17%5 of 6
Matt Frevola21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 58BODY14%3 of 6LEGS24%5 of 5
29 of 57
Sig.
strikes
21 of 69
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:20
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 27Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Jake Maxim9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kyle Nelson11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 17BODY36%4 of 5LEGS9%1 of 1
Matt Frevola7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 8BODY43%3 of 4LEGS14%1 of 1
11 of 23
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:43
Control
0:37
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jake Maxim10–9

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
Kyle NelsonMatt Frevola
Official totals — Kyle Nelson first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Jake Maxim29–28

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 — 12 scored, Kyle Nelson first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–26
Combat Press.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–26
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–26
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Nelson · 52%30-27 Nelson · 20%29-28 Nelson · 10%30-25 Nelson · 8%29-27 Nelson · 5%

60 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.

Kyle Nelson

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.34 / 15m
5.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.71 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
41%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Matt Frevola

2.34takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Kyle Nelson↓ −9.1pp
open 60.7%close 51.6%
Matt Frevola↑ +9.1pp
open 39.3%close 48.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kyle Nelson opened at 60.7% and closed at 51.6% (−9.1pp), with Matt Frevola 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
Kyle Nelson-170-11860.7%51.6%−9.1pp
Matt Frevola145-10339.3%48.4%+9.1pp
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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