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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Rodriguez · Max Holloway vs Yair Rodriguez
From the tape · 13 Nov 2021

Max Holloway vs Yair Rodriguez

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Rodriguez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Max Holloway beat Yair Rodriguez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · Marc GoddardFOTN

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 MaxHolloway“Blessed”Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Fights out of Waiʻanae, Hawaii, United States
VSOn the tape
Blue corner YairRodriguez“El Pantera”Valle Flow Striking · Born in Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico · Fights out of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
Featherweight5 rounds13 Nov 2021At the time: #1 Featherweight vs #3 · rankings of 8 November 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
  • 24 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Rodriguez.
28-9
Record
21-6
29
Age
29
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
69″
Reach
+2″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1424
UFC bouts
10
+24%11/1861% of wins
Finishes
3/838% of wins
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Born in
Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
Waiʻanae, Hawaii, United States
Fights out of
Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Max Holloway38 sig landed
HEAD42%16 of 30BODY21%8 of 9LEGS37%14 of 18
Yair Rodriguez37 sig landed
HEAD32%12 of 43BODY19%7 of 13LEGS49%18 of 23
38 of 57
Sig.
strikes
37 of 79
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:14
Control
0:43
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Max Holloway58 sig landed
HEAD50%29 of 69BODY40%23 of 34LEGS10%6 of 7
Yair Rodriguez42 sig landed
HEAD36%15 of 54BODY12%5 of 7LEGS52%22 of 23
58 of 110
Sig.
strikes
42 of 84
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 56Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 41Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway38 sig landed
HEAD66%25 of 53BODY29%11 of 11LEGS5%2 of 2
Yair Rodriguez20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 38BODY10%2 of 4LEGS25%5 of 5
38 of 66
Sig.
strikes
20 of 47
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:04
Control
0:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Max Holloway43 sig landed
HEAD51%22 of 52BODY30%13 of 16LEGS19%8 of 9
Yair Rodriguez24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 53BODY12%3 of 6LEGS17%4 of 5
43 of 77
Sig.
strikes
24 of 64
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:06
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 33Clinch 4Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway53 sig landed
HEAD70%37 of 74BODY21%11 of 13LEGS9%5 of 7
Yair Rodriguez36 sig landed
HEAD58%21 of 59BODY19%7 of 11LEGS22%8 of 8
53 of 94
Sig.
strikes
36 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:00
Control
0:30
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 40Clinch 12Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron 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 · Marc Goddard
Max HollowayYair Rodriguez
Official totals — Max Holloway first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide48–47

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 — 21 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com49–46
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com49–46
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com49–46
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA48–46
Robert Sargent MMARising.com48–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
Combat Press.com48–47
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com48–47
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com48–47
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com48–47
Mike Heck MMAFighting.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
Daniel Yanofsky Fightful.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com48–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com48–47
Nick Baldwin theScore48–47
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Holloway · 44%49-46 Holloway · 26%48-47 Rodriguez · 17%50-45 Holloway · 4%48-46 Holloway · 2%

694 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.

Max Holloway

0.22takedowns / 15 min
0.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
0.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.45 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
29%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Yair Rodriguez

0.71takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Max Holloway↑ +7.0pp
open 75.9%close 83.0%
Yair Rodriguez↓ −7.0pp
open 24.1%close 17.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Holloway opened at 75.9% and closed at 83.0% (+7.0pp), with Yair 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
Max Holloway-375-68075.9%83.0%+7.0pp
Yair Rodriguez30046024.1%17.0%−7.0pp
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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