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Nick Klein vs Joe Kropschot

Red corner NickKlein“Blue Collar”Pura Vida BJJ · Hometown (per Sherdog): Plymouth, Wisconsin
VSSettled
Blue corner JoeKropschot
Middleweight3 rounds31 Oct 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 5.4 more significant strikes a minute than Klein.
  • Averages 4.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kropschot.
6-4
Record
10-3
31
Age
31
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
77″
Reach
+2″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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The call vs the fight

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

Our call
Joe Kropschot
73.2% confident
Method calledKO/TKO 54%
Vs the market+0.0pp
Market had our pick at73%
The fight
Joe Kropschot
WIN✗
How it endedSUB
Round2 of 3
Clock1:25
BonusPOTN
Called it We called Joe Kropschot at 73.2% and Joe Kropschot won. The method call missed.
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 →

By the numbers

History leans Klein on 1 of these; our model picked Kropschot.

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Nick Klein11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 23BODY27%3 of 5LEGS18%2 of 2
Joe Kropschot15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 11BODY13%2 of 2LEGS53%8 of 8
11 of 30
Sig.
strikes
15 of 21
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:18
Control
1:15
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 21:25 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 1:25
Nick Klein2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Joe Kropschot2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:43
Control
0:32
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Joe Kropschot

Round
2
Clock
1:25
Method
SUB

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Nick Klein

5.79takedowns / 15 min
5.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
16.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.00 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
50%
1.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
3.00 / 15m

Joe Kropschot

1.00takedowns / 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 (7.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there. (Neither our captured price series nor the sportsbook open/close record on file has this pair.)

Nick Klein vs Joe Kropschot.

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