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Events · UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2 · Jeremy Stephens vs Estevan Payan
From the tape · 25 May 2013

Jeremy Stephens vs Estevan Payan

UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jeremy Stephens beat Estevan Payan

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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
EP
Blue corner EstevanPayan“El Terrible”Arizona Combat Sports · Tempe, Arizona
Featherweight3 rounds25 May 2013
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Stephens.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
29-23
Record
16-12
−4 yr27
Age
31
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Alliance MMA
Gym
Arizona Combat Sports
Des Moines, Iowa
From
Tempe, Arizona
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 — 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 action1 sub attempt
Jeremy Stephens16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 16BODY6%1 of 4LEGS50%8 of 14
Estevan Payan11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 28BODY27%3 of 6LEGS27%3 of 8
16 of 34
Sig.
strikes
11 of 42
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:12
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stephens firstDouglas Crosby10–9Dave Hagen10–9Roy Silbert10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Jeremy Stephens12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 12BODY17%2 of 2LEGS25%3 of 3
Estevan Payan6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 18BODY17%1 of 3LEGS17%1 of 4
12 of 17
Sig.
strikes
6 of 25
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:53
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stephens firstDouglas Crosby10–9Dave Hagen10–9Roy Silbert10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jeremy Stephens21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 25BODY38%8 of 9LEGS14%3 of 3
Estevan Payan8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 24BODY12%1 of 1LEGS25%2 of 2
21 of 37
Sig.
strikes
8 of 27
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:59
Control
0:17
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stephens firstDouglas Crosby10–8Dave Hagen10–9Roy Silbert10–8

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 · Chris Tognoni
Jeremy StephensEstevan Payan
Official totals — Jeremy Stephens first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby30–26
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–26

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 — 11 scored, Jeremy Stephens first · unofficial

Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca30–26
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–26
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
John Pollock Fight Network30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Stephens · 89%30-26 Stephens · 11%

9 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
0.36 / 15m
2.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.36 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
100%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Estevan Payan

0.36takedowns / 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 (5.32 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.

Jeremy Stephens↓ −2.6pp
open 65.3%close 62.7%
Estevan Payan↑ +2.6pp
open 34.7%close 37.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jeremy Stephens opened at 65.3% and closed at 62.7% (−2.6pp), with Estevan Payan 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-230-18465.3%62.7%−2.6pp
Estevan Payan17016034.7%37.3%+2.6pp
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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