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Events · UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier · Alex Soto vs Francisco Rivera
From the tape · 15 May 2012

Alex Soto vs Francisco Rivera

UFC on FUEL TV: Korean Zombie vs Poirier · Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Result

Francisco Rivera beat Alex Soto

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Rick McCoy

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.

AS
Red corner AlexSoto“Extremo”KHK MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
FR
Blue corner FranciscoRivera“Cisco”
Bantamweight3 rounds15 May 2012
The story going in
  • Averages 1.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Rivera.
  • Carries 68 points more takedown defence than Soto.
8-3-1
Record
11-7
−2 yr28
Age
30
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
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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
Alex Soto17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 26BODY59%10 of 15LEGS12%2 of 2
Francisco Rivera23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 50BODY26%6 of 7LEGS4%1 of 1
17 of 43
Sig.
strikes
23 of 58
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:46
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 7Ground 1
Judges · this round · Soto firstEric Colón9–10Brian Costello9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Rivera
Alex Soto14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 48BODY43%6 of 12LEGS21%3 of 4
Francisco Rivera23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 48BODY13%3 of 4LEGS22%5 of 6
14 of 64
Sig.
strikes
23 of 58
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Soto firstEric Colón9–10Brian Costello9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alex Soto10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 64BODY40%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Francisco Rivera22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 46BODY18%4 of 9LEGS5%1 of 2
10 of 71
Sig.
strikes
22 of 57
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Soto firstEric Colón9–10Brian Costello9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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 · Rick McCoy
Alex SotoFrancisco Rivera
Official totals — Alex Soto first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Brian Costello27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30

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 — 6 scored, Alex Soto first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com26–30
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com26–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rivera · 80%30-26 Rivera · 20%

5 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.

Alex Soto

2.82takedowns / 15 min
2.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.01 / 15m
9.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.60 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
63%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Francisco Rivera

1.01takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Alex Soto↓ −3.5pp
open 35.2%close 31.7%
Francisco Rivera↑ +3.5pp
open 64.8%close 68.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alex Soto opened at 35.2% and closed at 31.7% (−3.5pp), with Francisco Rivera 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
Alex Soto17020735.2%31.7%−3.5pp
Francisco Rivera-215-23764.8%68.3%+3.5pp
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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