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Events · UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt · Marco Beltran vs Marlon Vera
From the tape · 15 Nov 2014

Marco Beltran vs Marlon Vera

UFC 180: Werdum vs Hunt · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Result

Marco Beltran beat Marlon Vera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

MB
Red corner MarcoBeltran“Psycho”Aranha Barcelona BJJ · Mexico City
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarlonVera“Chito”Team Oyama · Chone, Manabi
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Nov 2014
The story going in
  • Carries 13 points more striking defence than Vera.
  • Lands 2.1 more significant strikes a minute than Beltran.
8-6
Record
23-12-1
28
Age
−7 yr21
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Aranha Barcelona BJJ
Gym
Team Oyama
Mexico City
From
Chone, Manabi
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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
Marco Beltran10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 14BODY20%2 of 4LEGS10%1 of 1
Marlon Vera5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY20%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
5 of 16
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:52
Control
1:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Beltran firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Marco Beltran10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 14BODY10%1 of 1LEGS20%2 of 2
Marlon Vera1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 17
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:03
Control
2:39
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Beltran firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marco Beltran11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 22BODY9%1 of 2LEGS18%2 of 2
Marlon Vera19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 29BODY21%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 26
Sig.
strikes
19 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:51
Control
2:20
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 11
Judges · this round · Beltran firstRichard Bertrand9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Sal 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 · Herb Dean
Marco BeltranMarlon Vera
Official totals — Marco Beltran first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Douglas Crosby29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28

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 — 10 scored, Marco Beltran first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Jesse Holland MMAMania.com28–29
Sherdog.com28–29
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vera · 55%29-28 Beltran · 25%30-27 Vera · 20%

20 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.

Marco Beltran

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.47 / 15m
1.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.21 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
39%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Marlon Vera

0.47takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Marco Beltran vs Marlon Vera.

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