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Nathaniel Wood vs Pavel Andrusca

Red corner NathanielWood“The Prospect”Great Britain Top Team · Born in London, England · Fights out of Morden, England
VSSettled
Blue corner PavelAndruscaFrom Moldova
Featherweight3 rounds5 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Wood.
  • Has finished 3 of 11 UFC wins.
23-7
Record
9-0
33
Age
−9 yr24
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
+3″69″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Morden, Englandfights out of
From
Moldova
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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
Nathaniel Wood
80.1% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 43%
Vs the market+7.8pp
Market had our pick at72%
The fight
Pavel Andrusca
LOSS✓
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Nathaniel Wood at 80.1% — Pavel Andrusca won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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
Nathaniel Wood8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 20BODY38%3 of 6LEGS25%2 of 6
Pavel Andrusca14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 28BODY14%2 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
8 of 32
Sig.
strikes
14 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
0:55
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Wood firstBen Cartlidge9–10Ludovic Dandine9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Wood1 sub attempt
Nathaniel Wood15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 35BODY20%3 of 4LEGS13%2 of 4
Pavel Andrusca17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 33BODY6%1 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
15 of 43
Sig.
strikes
17 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 10
0:09
Control
1:31
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Wood firstBen Cartlidge10–9Ludovic Dandine9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nathaniel Wood5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 8BODY20%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Pavel Andrusca19 sig landed
HEAD95%18 of 31BODY5%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 11
Sig.
strikes
19 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
3:40
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 6
Judges · this round · Wood firstBen Cartlidge9–10Ludovic Dandine9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Nathaniel WoodPavel Andrusca
Official totals — Nathaniel Wood first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Ludovic Dandine27–30
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide27–30

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, Nathaniel Wood first · unofficial

Nolan King MMAJunkie.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Unattributed28–29
CombatPress.com28–29
Unattributed28–29
Unattributed28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Andrusca · 53%30-27 Andrusca · 26%29-28 Wood · 10%30-28 Andrusca · 5%

19 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.

Nathaniel Wood

1.25takedowns / 15 min
1.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.00 / 15m
2.60 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
19.05 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
21%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Pavel Andrusca

4.00takedowns / 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 (6.09 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Nathaniel WoodPavel AndruscaPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Nathaniel Wood vs Pavel Andrusca — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Nathaniel Wood and Pavel Andrusca from Aug 28 to Sep 05, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Nathaniel Wood moves from 50% to 70% and Pavel Andrusca from 50% to 30%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Aug 28Aug 30Sep 1Sep 3Sep 5▲ we flagged Nathaniel Wood (HIGH) here70%30%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Nathaniel Wood's implied chance moved up from 50% to 70% (+20.5pp).

This series stops at Sep 05 17:41Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. 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 Nathaniel Wood at 80.1%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 70.5% — our number sat 9.6pp above 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
Nathaniel Wood — sportsbook consensus73.4%71.7%74.1%72.0%−1.4pp
Pavel Andrusca — sportsbook consensus26.6%25.9%28.3%28.0%+1.4pp
Nathaniel Wood — Polymarket50.0%50.0%75.0%70.5%+20.5pp
Pavel Andrusca — Polymarket50.0%25.0%50.0%29.5%−20.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,705 snapshots on file · window Aug 28 17:39–Sep 05 17:31Z · last capture Sep 05, 17:31Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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