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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · Anthony Pettis vs Eddie Alvarez
From the tape · 17 Jan 2016

Anthony Pettis vs Eddie Alvarez

UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Eddie Alvarez beat Anthony Pettis

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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.

AP
Red corner AnthonyPettis“Showtime”Roufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
EA
Blue corner EddieAlvarezRicardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lightweight3 rounds17 Jan 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 32 points more takedown defence than Pettis.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Alvarez.
24-10
Record
29-6
−4 yr28
Age
32
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+3″72″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+57
UFC bouts
2
4/580% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Roufusport
Gym
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Anthony Pettis11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 13BODY64%7 of 9LEGS9%1 of 1
Eddie Alvarez4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY50%2 of 2LEGS50%2 of 2
11 of 23
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 5
0:00
Control
3:07
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDouglas Crosby9–10Bryan Miner9–10Ryan Shea10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Pettis25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 43BODY8%2 of 6LEGS24%6 of 6
Eddie Alvarez16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 31BODY25%4 of 7LEGS31%5 of 6
25 of 55
Sig.
strikes
16 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
1:08
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDouglas Crosby10–9Bryan Miner10–9Ryan Shea10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anthony Pettis20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 23BODY20%4 of 5LEGS15%3 of 3
Eddie Alvarez22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 24BODY27%6 of 9LEGS14%3 of 3
20 of 31
Sig.
strikes
22 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 6
0:00
Control
3:22
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDouglas Crosby9–10Bryan Miner9–10Ryan Shea9–10

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 · Kevin MacDonald
Anthony PettisEddie Alvarez
Official totals — Anthony Pettis first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby28–29
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Ryan Shea29–28

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 — 18 scored, Anthony Pettis first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–29
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pettis · 43%29-28 Alvarez · 40%30-27 Alvarez · 7%30-27 Pettis · 3%

459 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.

Anthony Pettis

0.61takedowns / 15 min
0.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.92 / 15m
1.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.11 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
36%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Eddie Alvarez

2.92takedowns / 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.

Anthony Pettis↑ +5.9pp
open 69.7%close 75.7%
Eddie Alvarez↓ −5.9pp
open 30.3%close 24.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Pettis opened at 69.7% and closed at 75.7% (+5.9pp), with Eddie Alvarez 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
Anthony Pettis-290-36069.7%75.7%+5.9pp
Eddie Alvarez21029730.3%24.3%−5.9pp
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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