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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver · Tateki Matsuda vs Joby Sanchez
From the tape · 18 Jan 2015

Tateki Matsuda vs Joby Sanchez

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

Joby Sanchez beat Tateki Matsuda

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Bryan Miner

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.

TM
Red corner TatekiMatsuda“Tech”Team Sityodtong · Shinagawa, Tokyo
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner JobySanchezJackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Flyweight3 rounds18 Jan 2015
13-8
Record
11-4
28
Age
−5 yr23
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
Team Sityodtong
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Shinagawa, Tokyo
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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 Sanchez1 sub attempt
Tateki Matsuda19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 33BODY21%4 of 5LEGS21%4 of 5
Joby Sanchez15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 51BODY7%1 of 2LEGS7%1 of 2
19 of 43
Sig.
strikes
15 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:44
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Matsuda firstDouglas Crosby10–9Mike Mena9–10Steve Rita9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tateki Matsuda23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 57BODY9%2 of 6LEGS4%1 of 1
Joby Sanchez17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 74BODY24%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 64
Sig.
strikes
17 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:22
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Matsuda firstDouglas Crosby10–9Mike Mena9–10Steve Rita10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tateki Matsuda13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 57BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Joby Sanchez26 sig landed
HEAD92%24 of 75BODY8%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 60
Sig.
strikes
26 of 78
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:20
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 5
Judges · this round · Matsuda firstDouglas Crosby9–10Mike Mena9–10Steve Rita9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Bryan Miner
Tateki MatsudaJoby Sanchez
Official totals — Tateki Matsuda first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby29–28
Mike Mena27–30
Steve Rita28–29

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, Tateki Matsuda first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sanchez · 82%29-28 Matsuda · 6%

17 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.

Tateki Matsuda

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.95 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
1.34 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
71%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Joby Sanchez

0.95takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Tateki Matsuda↓ −11.6pp
open 44.2%close 32.6%
Joby Sanchez↑ +11.6pp
open 55.8%close 67.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tateki Matsuda opened at 44.2% and closed at 32.6% (−11.6pp), with Joby Sanchez 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
Tateki Matsuda11019844.2%32.6%−11.6pp
Joby Sanchez-150-22555.8%67.4%+11.6pp
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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