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History · 2016 · UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux · Efrain Escudero vs Kevin Lee
From the tape · 23 Apr 2016

Efrain Escudero vs Kevin Lee

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

Kevin Lee beat Efrain Escudero

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

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.

EE
Red corner EfrainEscudero“Hecho En Mexico”MMA Lab · Tempe, Arizona
VSOn the tape
KL
Blue corner KevinLee“The Motown Phenom”Tristar Gym · Grand Rapids, Michigan
Lightweight3 rounds23 Apr 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Escudero.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Lee.
28-12
Record
18-8
30
Age
−7 yr23
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
71″
Reach
+6″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+511
UFC bouts
6
+15%2/540% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
MMA Lab
Gym
Tristar Gym
Tempe, Arizona
From
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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
Efrain Escudero21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 28BODY24%5 of 8LEGS19%4 of 8
Kevin Lee28 sig landed
HEAD61%17 of 52BODY32%9 of 10LEGS7%2 of 2
21 of 44
Sig.
strikes
28 of 64
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:46
Control
0:37
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Escudero firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Efrain Escudero32 sig landed
HEAD56%18 of 33BODY19%6 of 7LEGS25%8 of 8
Kevin Lee23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 48BODY26%6 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
32 of 48
Sig.
strikes
23 of 57
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:50
Control
0:35
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Escudero firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Efrain Escudero17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 8BODY12%2 of 3LEGS65%11 of 11
Kevin Lee13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 34BODY15%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 22
Sig.
strikes
13 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:38
Control
3:05
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 8
Judges · this round · Escudero firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Efrain EscuderoKevin Lee
Official totals — Efrain Escudero first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29

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 — 19 scored, Efrain Escudero first · unofficial

Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–30
Diego Peixoto MMABrasil.com.br27–30
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com28–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–30
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Dana Becker FightLine.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Patrick Stumberg MMAMania.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Escudero · 45%29-28 Lee · 40%30-27 Lee · 7%30-28 Lee · 5%

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.

Efrain Escudero

1.31takedowns / 15 min
1.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.18 / 15m
3.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.40 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
43%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Kevin Lee

3.18takedowns / 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.

Efrain Escudero↓ −1.0pp
open 24.8%close 23.8%
Kevin Lee↑ +1.0pp
open 75.2%close 76.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Efrain Escudero opened at 24.8% and closed at 23.8% (−1.0pp), with Kevin Lee 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
Efrain Escudero28030724.8%23.8%−1.0pp
Kevin Lee-400-37075.2%76.2%+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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