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History · 2015 · UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano · Raquel Pennington vs Holly Holm
From the tape · 28 Feb 2015

Raquel Pennington vs Holly Holm

UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Holly Holm beat Raquel Pennington

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

Red corner RaquelPennington“Rocky”Altitude MMA · Colorado Springs, Colorado
VSOn the tape
Blue corner HollyHolm“The Preacher's Daughter”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds28 Feb 2015
The story going in
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Holm.
  • Carries 14 points more takedown defence than Pennington.
16-10
Record
15-7
−7 yr26
Age
33
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Altitude MMA
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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
Raquel Pennington8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 30BODY25%2 of 3LEGS25%2 of 5
Holly Holm8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 50BODY50%4 of 8LEGS0%0 of 3
8 of 38
Sig.
strikes
8 of 61
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:02
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pennington firstDerek Cleary9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Wade Vierra9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Raquel Pennington15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 31BODY13%2 of 3LEGS33%5 of 7
Holly Holm20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 59BODY50%10 of 13LEGS10%2 of 3
15 of 41
Sig.
strikes
20 of 75
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pennington firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy9–10Wade Vierra9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Raquel Pennington17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 46BODY0%0 of 8LEGS29%5 of 6
Holly Holm16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 55BODY56%9 of 15LEGS12%2 of 4
17 of 60
Sig.
strikes
16 of 74
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pennington firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy9–10Wade Vierra10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Raquel PenningtonHolly Holm
Official totals — Raquel Pennington first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide27–30
Wade Vierra1.8 avg spread · 33% wide28–29

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 — 17 scored, Raquel Pennington first · unofficial

Fergus O' Farrell Setanta27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Holm · 41%29-28 Pennington · 28%30-27 Holm · 18%30-28 Holm · 4%

114 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.

Raquel Pennington

0.83takedowns / 15 min
0.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.87 / 15m
3.07 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.90 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
30%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Holly Holm

0.87takedowns / 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 Women's Bantamweight

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.

Raquel Pennington↓ −3.1pp
open 21.6%close 18.5%
Holly Holm↑ +3.1pp
open 78.4%close 81.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Raquel Pennington opened at 21.6% and closed at 18.5% (−3.1pp), with Holly Holm 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
Raquel Pennington33542221.6%18.5%−3.1pp
Holly Holm-505-55078.4%81.5%+3.1pp
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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