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Events · UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver · Cathal Pendred vs Sean Spencer
From the tape · 18 Jan 2015

Cathal Pendred vs Sean Spencer

UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Cathal Pendred beat Sean Spencer

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

CP
Red corner CathalPendred“The Punisher”SBG Ireland · Dublin, Leinster
VSOn the tape
SS
Blue corner SeanSpencer“Black Magic”Fortis MMA · Bluefield, Virginia
Welterweight3 rounds18 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than Pendred.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Spencer.
17-4-1
Record
12-6
27
Age
27
+3″6' 1"
Height
5' 10"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+35
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
SBG Ireland
Gym
Fortis MMA
Dublin, Leinster
From
Bluefield, Virginia
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⚡ 1 KD Spencer
Cathal Pendred11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 11BODY0%0 of 1LEGS82%9 of 10
Sean Spencer15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 32BODY13%2 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
11 of 22
Sig.
strikes
15 of 39
2 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:47
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Pendred firstEric Colón10–9Douglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cathal Pendred20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 35BODY0%0 of 3LEGS45%9 of 10
Sean Spencer21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 51BODY24%5 of 8LEGS5%1 of 1
20 of 48
Sig.
strikes
21 of 60
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:02
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pendred firstEric Colón10–9Douglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cathal Pendred18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 30BODY6%1 of 2LEGS56%10 of 10
Sean Spencer16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 49BODY12%2 of 5LEGS6%1 of 2
18 of 42
Sig.
strikes
16 of 56
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:39
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pendred firstEric Colón10–9Douglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg10–9

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 · Yves Lavigne
Cathal PendredSean Spencer
Official totals — Cathal Pendred first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Douglas Crosby30–27
David Ginsberg29–28

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 — 16 scored, Cathal Pendred first · unofficial

John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–30
Cage Pages.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Fergus O' Farrell Setanta27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Spencer · 68%29-28 Spencer · 14%29-28 Pendred · 8%30-27 Pendred · 4%30-28 Spencer · 3%

207 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.

Cathal Pendred

2.46takedowns / 15 min
2.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.14 / 15m
10.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.42 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
33%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Sean Spencer

0.14takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Cathal Pendred↓ −7.5pp
open 46.2%close 38.7%
Sean Spencer↑ +7.5pp
open 53.8%close 61.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cathal Pendred opened at 46.2% and closed at 38.7% (−7.5pp), with Sean Spencer 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
Cathal Pendred10015246.2%38.7%−7.5pp
Sean Spencer-140-17053.8%61.3%+7.5pp
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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