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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · Ross Pearson vs Francisco Trinaldo
From the tape · 17 Jan 2016

Ross Pearson vs Francisco Trinaldo

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

Francisco Trinaldo beat Ross Pearson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · 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.

RP
Red corner RossPearson“The Real Deal”Central Coast MMA · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
VSOn the tape
FT
Blue corner FranciscoTrinaldo“Massaranduba”Brazilian TKO · Brasilia, Federal District
Lightweight3 rounds17 Jan 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Trinaldo.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
20-16
Record
28-9
−6 yr31
Age
37
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+617
UFC bouts
11
5/1050% of wins
Finishes
4/850% of wins
Central Coast MMA
Gym
Brazilian TKO
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
From
Brasilia, Federal District
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
Ross Pearson8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 21BODY50%4 of 5LEGS25%2 of 3
Francisco Trinaldo9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 24BODY11%1 of 3LEGS11%1 of 2
8 of 29
Sig.
strikes
9 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstSal D'Amato9–10David Ginsberg9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ross Pearson7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 17BODY57%4 of 7LEGS29%2 of 2
Francisco Trinaldo24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 32BODY29%7 of 8LEGS8%2 of 2
7 of 26
Sig.
strikes
24 of 42
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:53
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstSal D'Amato9–10David Ginsberg9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ross Pearson13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 19BODY38%5 of 9LEGS15%2 of 2
Francisco Trinaldo18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 34BODY28%5 of 6LEGS6%1 of 1
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
18 of 41
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:39
Control
0:11
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstSal D'Amato9–10David Ginsberg10–9Tony Weeks9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Ross PearsonFrancisco Trinaldo
Official totals — Ross Pearson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
David Ginsberg28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 15 scored, Ross Pearson first · unofficial

John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Trinaldo · 45%30-27 Trinaldo · 40%29-28 Pearson · 7%30-27 Pearson · 5%30-28 Trinaldo · 2%

42 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.

Ross Pearson

0.74takedowns / 15 min
0.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.98 / 15m
2.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.33 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
42%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Francisco Trinaldo

0.98takedowns / 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.

Ross Pearson↓ −1.0pp
open 59.2%close 58.2%
Francisco Trinaldo↑ +1.0pp
open 40.8%close 41.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ross Pearson opened at 59.2% and closed at 58.2% (−1.0pp), with Francisco Trinaldo 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
Ross Pearson-170-15159.2%58.2%−1.0pp
Francisco Trinaldo13013140.8%41.8%+1.0pp
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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