Derek Cleary

Scoring active Apr 21, 2012 – Aug 22, 2026.

Bouts judged
602
Rounds scored
1966
10-8 rounds
84
4.3% of rounds
Minority cards
40
6.6% of bouts

Recent vs career

Bouts (12mo)
34
602 career
10-8 share (12mo)
0.8%-3.4pp
4.3% career
Minority cards (12mo)
0-6.6pp
0.0% recent · 6.6% career
Rounds (12mo)
118
1966 career

Round-scoring tendencies

Score
Judge
League
10-9
95.3%
96.0%
10-8
4.2%
3.5%
10-7
0.1%
0.0%
10-10
0.0%
0.1%
9-9
0.4%
0.3%
Other
0.1%
0.1%

Round-by-round score patterns called by this judge (1,966 rounds) vs the UFC league average across every judged round in our corpus. A taller 10-8 share suggests a judge willing to call dominant rounds; an outsized 10-10 share flags an unusually permissive scoring style.

Most-scored fighters

Fighters Derek Clearyhas scored at least twice. “Scored for” counts bouts where Derek Cleary's card had this fighter winning; “against” counts the opposite.

Career timeline

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26
Bouts judged per calendar year. Peak: 63.

Recent bouts

Gregory Rodrigues vs Anthony Hernandez
UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs Rodrigues · Aug 22, 2026 · Middleweight
4847
Vitor Petrino vs Serghei Spivac
UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs Rodrigues · Aug 22, 2026 · Heavyweight
3027
Steven Asplund vs Guilherme Pat
UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs Salkilld · Aug 8, 2026 · Heavyweight
2928
Manoel Sousa vs Richie Miranda
UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs Salkilld · Aug 8, 2026 · Lightweight
2928
Farid Basharat vs John Garza
UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 · Jul 11, 2026 · Bantamweight
2928
Wang Cong vs Tracy Cortez
UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 · Jul 11, 2026 · Women's Flyweight
2927
Tom Nolan vs Fares Ziam
UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Jun 6, 2026 · Lightweight
2928
Gabriel Bonfim vs Belal Muhammad
UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim · Jun 6, 2026 · Welterweight
5045
Aljamain Sterling vs Youssef Zalal
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Featherweight
4945
Michelle Montague vs Mayra Bueno Silva
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Women's Bantamweight
2928
Davey Grant vs Adrian Luna Martinetti
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Bantamweight
2928
Rafa Garcia vs Alexander Hernandez
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Lightweight
2928
Talita Alencar vs Julia Polastri
UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal · Apr 25, 2026 · Women's Strawweight
2928
Mantas Kondratavicius vs Antonio Trocoli
UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy · Mar 21, 2026 · Middleweight
3027
Nathaniel Wood vs Losene Keita
UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy · Mar 21, 2026 · Featherweight
2928
Movsar Evloev vs Lerone Murphy
UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy · Mar 21, 2026 · Featherweight
4846
Charles Oliveira vs Max Holloway
UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2 · Mar 7, 2026 · Lightweight
5045
Donte Johnson vs Cody Brundage
UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2 · Mar 7, 2026 · Middleweight
2928
Sumudaerji vs Jesus Aguilar
UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2 · Mar 7, 2026 · Flyweight
3027
Raul Rosas Jr. vs Rob Font
UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2 · Mar 7, 2026 · Bantamweight
3027

Minority card = this judge's verdict differed from the majority of judges on the same bout. 10-8 rounds reflect the share of rounds this judge scored 10-8 (one fighter ≥ 10, the other ≤ 8). League averages on the score-distribution chart cover every UFC judge's rounds in our corpus. Source: MMA Decisions.