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History · 2015 · UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor · Dennis Bermudez vs Jeremy Stephens
From the tape · 11 Jul 2015

Dennis Bermudez vs Jeremy Stephens

UFC 189: Mendes vs McGregor · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jeremy Stephens beat Dennis Bermudez

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
0:32
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

DB
Red corner DennisBermudez“The Menace”Long Island MMA · Saugerties, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
Featherweight3 rounds11 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Stephens.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
17-9
Record
29-23
−1 yr28
Age
29
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
66″
Reach
+5″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+1120
3/743% of wins
Finishes
+7%5/1050% of wins
Long Island MMA
Gym
Alliance MMA
Saugerties, New York
From
Des Moines, Iowa
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Dennis Bermudez18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 24BODY11%2 of 4LEGS17%3 of 4
Jeremy Stephens7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 12BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 3
18 of 32
Sig.
strikes
7 of 17
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:21
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Stephens
Dennis Bermudez15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 36BODY13%2 of 4LEGS20%3 of 4
Jeremy Stephens22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 34BODY9%2 of 2LEGS27%6 of 9
15 of 44
Sig.
strikes
22 of 45
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:34
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 1
Round 30:32 of action⚡ 1 KD StephensEnded 0:32
Dennis Bermudez2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%2 of 2
Jeremy Stephens9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 10BODY11%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
9 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 6

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Jeremy Stephens

Round
3
Clock
0:32
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Dennis Bermudez

3.89takedowns / 15 min
3.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.10 / 15m
9.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.89 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
38%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 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

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.

Dennis Bermudez↑ +6.2pp
open 62.1%close 68.3%
Jeremy Stephens↓ −6.2pp
open 37.9%close 31.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dennis Bermudez opened at 62.1% and closed at 68.3% (+6.2pp), with Jeremy Stephens 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
Dennis Bermudez-190-24262.1%68.3%+6.2pp
Jeremy Stephens15020537.9%31.7%−6.2pp
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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