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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos · Robert Whiteford vs Lucas Martins
From the tape · 10 Apr 2016

Robert Whiteford vs Lucas Martins

UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos · Zagreb, Croatia
Result

Lucas Martins beat Robert Whiteford

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

RW
Red corner RobertWhiteford“The Hammer”Armadale, West Lothian
VSOn the tape
LM
Blue corner LucasMartins“Mineiro”Capital da Luta · Montes Claros, Minas Gerais
Featherweight3 rounds10 Apr 2016
The story going in
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Martins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Every one of Martins’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
14-4
Record
19-3
32
Age
−5 yr27
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+26
1/250% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
Armadale, West Lothian
From
Montes Claros, Minas Gerais
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
Robert Whiteford17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 21BODY35%6 of 7LEGS18%3 of 4
Lucas Martins6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 25BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
17 of 32
Sig.
strikes
6 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:45
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Whiteford firstJadranko Cacic10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Andreas Grüner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Robert Whiteford15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 26BODY27%4 of 6LEGS27%4 of 5
Lucas Martins15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 26BODY27%4 of 5LEGS7%1 of 2
15 of 37
Sig.
strikes
15 of 33
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Whiteford firstJadranko Cacic9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Andreas Grüner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Robert Whiteford13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 17BODY31%4 of 7LEGS31%4 of 6
Lucas Martins9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 18BODY0%0 of 2LEGS56%5 of 5
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Whiteford firstJadranko Cacic9–10Ben Cartlidge10–9Andreas Grüner9–10

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 · Leon Roberts
Robert WhitefordLucas Martins
Official totals — Robert Whiteford first
JudgeTotal
Jadranko Cacic28–29
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Andreas Grüner2.4 avg spread · 68% 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 — 13 scored, Robert Whiteford first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Whiteford · 38%29-28 Martins · 24%30-27 Martins · 18%30-27 Whiteford · 16%30-29 Martins · 2%

45 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.

Robert Whiteford

1.90takedowns / 15 min
1.90 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
6.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
30%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Lucas Martins

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Robert Whiteford↑ +5.2pp
open 44.2%close 49.5%
Lucas Martins↓ −5.2pp
open 55.8%close 50.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Robert Whiteford opened at 44.2% and closed at 49.5% (+5.2pp), with Lucas Martins 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
Robert Whiteford110-10744.2%49.5%+5.2pp
Lucas Martins-150-11255.8%50.5%−5.2pp
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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