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Events · Du Plessis vs Usman · Alden Coria vs Stewart Nicoll
Red corner AldenCoria4oz. Fight Club · Houston, Texas
VSSettled
Blue corner StewartNicoll“Kakamora”Broz Martial Arts · Brisbane, Queensland
Flyweight3 rounds18 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 43 points more takedown defence than Nicoll.
13-3
Record
8-4
−2 yr28
Age
30
+3″5' 8"
Height
5' 5"
+2″67″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+13
4oz. Fight Club
Gym
Broz Martial Arts
Houston, Texas
From
Brisbane, Queensland
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Alden Coria
68.5% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 56%
Vs the market+18.5pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Alden Coria
WIN
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Alden Coria at 68.5% and Alden Coria won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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
Alden Coria14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 36BODY21%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Stewart Nicoll9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 36BODY11%1 of 1LEGS11%1 of 2
14 of 39
Sig.
strikes
9 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:09
Control
1:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Coria firstMichael Bell10–9Chris Lee10–9David Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Alden Coria14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 29BODY29%4 of 4LEGS7%1 of 1
Stewart Nicoll13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 20BODY15%2 of 4LEGS23%3 of 4
14 of 34
Sig.
strikes
13 of 28
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:05
Control
1:27
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Coria firstMichael Bell10–9Chris Lee10–9David Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Alden Coria16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 53BODY6%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Stewart Nicoll6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 21BODY17%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 54
Sig.
strikes
6 of 23
2 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:03
Control
1:47
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Coria firstMichael Bell10–9Chris Lee10–9David Sutherland10–9

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 · Kevin Nix
Alden CoriaStewart Nicoll
Official totals — Alden Coria first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
David Sutherland29–28

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 — 10 scored, Alden Coria first · unofficial

Unattributed30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
CombatPress.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Coria · 67%29-28 Coria · 23%29-28 Nicoll · 10%

30 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.

Alden Coria

1.75takedowns / 15 min
1.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.63 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
14.82 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
11%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Stewart Nicoll

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

Ranked in Flyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Alden CoriaStewart NicollPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Alden Coria vs Stewart Nicoll — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Alden Coria and Stewart Nicoll from Jul 07 to Jul 18, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Alden Coria moves from 50% to 90% and Stewart Nicoll from 50% to 10%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%Jul 7Jul 10Jul 13Jul 16Jul 18▲ our call: Alden Coria (MED)90%10%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Alden Coria's implied chance moved up from 50% to 90% (+39.5pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

This series stops at Jul 18 21:42Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Alden Coria at 68.5%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 89.5% — our number sat 21.0pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Alden Coria — sportsbook consensus74.1%3.0%88.1%88.1%+14.0pp
Stewart Nicoll — sportsbook consensus25.9%11.9%97.0%11.9%−14.0pp
Alden Coria — Polymarket50.0%15.5%91.5%89.5%+39.5pp
Stewart Nicoll — Polymarket50.0%8.5%84.5%10.5%−39.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,210 snapshots on file · window Jul 07 20:12Jul 18 21:39Z · last capture Jul 18, 21:39Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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