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History · 2007 · UFC 76: Knockout · Jeremy Stephens vs Diego Saraiva
From the tape · 22 Sep 2007

Jeremy Stephens vs Diego Saraiva

UFC 76: Knockout · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Jeremy Stephens beat Diego Saraiva

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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 JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
VSOn the tape
DS
Blue corner DiegoSaraiva“The Octopus”Team Octopus · Atlanta, Georgia
Lightweight3 rounds22 Sep 2007
The story going in
  • Carries 61 points more takedown defence than Saraiva.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
29-23
Record
22-20-1
−4 yr21
Age
25
+3″5' 9"
Height
5' 6"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
Alliance MMA
Gym
Team Octopus
Des Moines, Iowa
From
Atlanta, Georgia
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. 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action2 sub attempts
Jeremy Stephens10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 15BODY10%1 of 2LEGS10%1 of 1
Diego Saraiva6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 3
10 of 18
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:54
Control
2:11
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Jeremy Stephens15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 21BODY20%3 of 4LEGS20%3 of 3
Diego Saraiva3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%1 of 1
15 of 28
Sig.
strikes
3 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:13
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jeremy Stephens25 sig landed
HEAD88%22 of 41BODY12%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Diego Saraiva2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 44
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:40
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 22
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Jeremy Stephens first
JudgeTotal
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide30–27
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 2 scored, Jeremy Stephens first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–28
Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Stephens · 67%30-27 Stephens · 33%

3 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.

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 15 min
1.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.33 / 15m
2.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.33 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
40%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Diego Saraiva

1.33takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Jeremy Stephens↑ +0.7pp
open 62.8%close 63.5%
Diego Saraiva↓ −0.7pp
open 37.2%close 36.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jeremy Stephens opened at 62.8% and closed at 63.5% (+0.7pp), with Diego Saraiva 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
Jeremy Stephens-185-19062.8%63.5%+0.7pp
Diego Saraiva16016537.2%36.5%−0.7pp
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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