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Events · UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux · Anthony Pettis vs Edson Barboza
From the tape · 23 Apr 2016

Anthony Pettis vs Edson Barboza

UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Edson Barboza beat Anthony Pettis

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.

AP
Red corner AnthonyPettis“Showtime”Roufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner EdsonBarboza“Junior”American Top Team · Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
Lightweight3 rounds23 Apr 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Pettis.
24-10
Record
24-15
−1 yr29
Age
30
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+614
+30%4/580% of wins
Finishes
5/1050% of wins
Roufusport
Gym
American Top Team
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
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 Pettis14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 30BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%4 of 4
Edson Barboza20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 28BODY20%4 of 7LEGS40%8 of 10
14 of 34
Sig.
strikes
20 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Pettis22 sig landed
HEAD82%18 of 46BODY18%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Edson Barboza22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 36BODY36%8 of 13LEGS23%5 of 8
22 of 50
Sig.
strikes
22 of 57
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstSal D'Amato9–10Marcos Rosales10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anthony Pettis12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 40BODY8%1 of 3LEGS33%4 of 4
Edson Barboza31 sig landed
HEAD32%10 of 37BODY10%3 of 6LEGS58%18 of 19
12 of 47
Sig.
strikes
31 of 62
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstSal D'Amato9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Tony 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
Anthony PettisEdson Barboza
Official totals — Anthony Pettis first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
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 — 24 scored, Anthony Pettis first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–30
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Severe MMA.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com27–30
Youngs TheMMACorner.com27–30
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com27–30
Rob Young CombatPress.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–30
Dana Becker FightLine.com28–29
Diego Peixoto MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Barboza · 77%29-28 Barboza · 14%30-28 Barboza · 4%30-27 Pettis · 1%

73 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
0.43 / 15m
1.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.86 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
50%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Edson Barboza

0.43takedowns / 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↑ +2.1pp
open 60.7%close 62.8%
Edson Barboza↓ −2.1pp
open 39.3%close 37.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Pettis opened at 60.7% and closed at 62.8% (+2.1pp), with Edson Barboza 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-180-18560.7%62.8%+2.1pp
Edson Barboza14016039.3%37.2%−2.1pp
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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