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Events · UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski · Leonardo Santos vs Efrain Escudero
From the tape · 13 Sep 2014

Leonardo Santos vs Efrain Escudero

UFC Fight Night: Bigfoot vs Arlovski · Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Result

Leonardo Santos beat Efrain Escudero

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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.

LS
Red corner LeonardoSantosNova Uniao · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
EE
Blue corner EfrainEscudero“Hecho En Mexico”MMA Lab · Tempe, Arizona
Lightweight3 rounds13 Sep 2014
The story going in
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Escudero.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Santos.
18-7-1
Record
28-12
34
Age
−6 yr28
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+4″75″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+57
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
MMA Lab
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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 action
Leonardo Santos13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 18BODY15%2 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
Efrain Escudero8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 11BODY12%1 of 2LEGS50%4 of 4
13 of 22
Sig.
strikes
8 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:49
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Vinicius Lins10–9Otto Torriero10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Escudero
Leonardo Santos8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 28BODY25%2 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Efrain Escudero30 sig landed
HEAD77%23 of 53BODY13%4 of 6LEGS10%3 of 3
8 of 34
Sig.
strikes
30 of 62
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:46
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Santos firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Vinicius Lins9–10Otto Torriero9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Leonardo Santos15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 29BODY20%3 of 8LEGS33%5 of 5
Efrain Escudero5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 16BODY20%1 of 3LEGS60%3 of 3
15 of 42
Sig.
strikes
5 of 22
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:04
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Vinicius Lins10–9Otto Torriero10–9

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 · Jerin Valel
Leonardo SantosEfrain Escudero
Official totals — Leonardo Santos first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Vinicius Lins29–28
Otto Torriero29–28

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, Leonardo Santos first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com29–28
Cage Pages.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Santos · 90%

10 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.

Leonardo Santos

0.88takedowns / 15 min
0.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.31 / 15m
3.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.27 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
40%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Efrain Escudero

1.31takedowns / 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.

Leonardo Santos↑ +10.7pp
open 55.8%close 66.5%
Efrain Escudero↓ −10.7pp
open 44.2%close 33.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Leonardo Santos opened at 55.8% and closed at 66.5% (+10.7pp), with Efrain Escudero 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
Leonardo Santos-150-21755.8%66.5%+10.7pp
Efrain Escudero11019044.2%33.5%−10.7pp
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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