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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze · Kevin Lee vs Daniel Rodriguez
From the tape · 28 Aug 2021

Kevin Lee vs Daniel Rodriguez

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Daniel Rodriguez beat Kevin Lee

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

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Red corner KevinLee“The Motown Phenom”Tristar Gym · Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States · Fights out of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DanielRodriguez“D-Rod”10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu · Born in Alhambra, California, United States · Fights out of Alhambra, California, United States
Welterweight3 rounds28 Aug 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Rodriguez.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
18-8
Record
20-6
−6 yr28
Age
34
5' 9"
Height
+4″6' 1"
+3″77″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1117
UFC bouts
6
+4%7/1164% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Born in
Alhambra, California, United States
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Fights out of
Alhambra, California, United States
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.

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 Lee13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 36BODY38%5 of 7LEGS8%1 of 1
Daniel Rodriguez16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 31BODY6%1 of 2LEGS44%7 of 7
13 of 44
Sig.
strikes
16 of 40
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:59
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kevin Lee23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 45BODY9%2 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
Daniel Rodriguez51 sig landed
HEAD71%36 of 69BODY8%4 of 4LEGS22%11 of 11
23 of 51
Sig.
strikes
51 of 84
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:33
Control
0:41
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 45Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kevin Lee20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 53BODY25%5 of 9LEGS15%3 of 3
Daniel Rodriguez53 sig landed
HEAD81%43 of 75BODY4%2 of 2LEGS15%8 of 9
20 of 65
Sig.
strikes
53 of 86
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:02
Control
0:04
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 52Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Lee firstSal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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
Kevin LeeDaniel Rodriguez
Official totals — Kevin Lee first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 12 scored, Kevin Lee first · unofficial

Drake Riggs SCMP MMA28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rodriguez · 77%29-28 Lee · 17%30-27 Rodriguez · 2%30-28 Rodriguez · 1%29-27 Rodriguez · 1%

86 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 Lee

3.18takedowns / 15 min
3.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.51 / 15m
7.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.02 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
50%
0.80 / 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 (5.27 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 Lee↑ +3.0pp
open 54.3%close 57.3%
Daniel Rodriguez↓ −3.0pp
open 45.7%close 42.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kevin Lee opened at 54.3% and closed at 57.3% (+3.0pp), with Daniel Rodriguez 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 Lee-130-14854.3%57.3%+3.0pp
Daniel Rodriguez11012545.7%42.7%−3.0pp
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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