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History · 2016 · UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko · Jim Alers vs Jason Knight
From the tape · 23 Jul 2016

Jim Alers vs Jason Knight

UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Jason Knight beat Jim Alers

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

JA
Red corner JimAlers“The Beast”MMA Masters · Orlando, Florida
VSOn the tape
JK
Blue corner JasonKnight“The Kid”Alan Belcher MMA Club · D'Iberville, Mississippi
Featherweight3 rounds23 Jul 2016
13-3
Record
20-5
29
Age
−5 yr24
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
MMA Masters
Gym
Alan Belcher MMA Club
Orlando, Florida
From
D'Iberville, Mississippi
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
Jim Alers18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 37BODY0%0 of 1LEGS28%5 of 6
Jason Knight26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 85BODY8%2 of 5LEGS42%11 of 13
18 of 44
Sig.
strikes
26 of 103
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:22
Control
0:10
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alers firstMatt Janecek9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10Rick Winter10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jim Alers13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 25BODY15%2 of 3LEGS15%2 of 3
Jason Knight27 sig landed
HEAD41%11 of 58BODY22%6 of 7LEGS37%10 of 13
13 of 31
Sig.
strikes
27 of 78
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:39
Control
0:06
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alers firstMatt Janecek9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jim Alers10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jason Knight23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 36BODY13%3 of 3LEGS17%4 of 5
10 of 25
Sig.
strikes
23 of 44
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:21
Control
0:29
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 5
Judges · this round · Alers firstMatt Janecek10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9Rick Winter10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Jim AlersJason Knight
Official totals — Jim Alers first
JudgeTotal
Matt Janecek28–29
Gabriel Sabaitis28–29
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide29–28

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 — 15 scored, Jim Alers first · unofficial

Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AForum.com.br28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Knight · 65%29-28 Alers · 19%30-27 Knight · 8%30-26 Knight · 4%

26 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.

Jim Alers

2.26takedowns / 15 min
2.26 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.31 / 15m
5.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.23 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
31%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Jason Knight

1.31takedowns / 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.

Jim Alers↓ −14.2pp
open 67.9%close 53.7%
Jason Knight↑ +14.2pp
open 32.1%close 46.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jim Alers opened at 67.9% and closed at 53.7% (−14.2pp), with Jason Knight 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
Jim Alers-270-12767.9%53.7%−14.2pp
Jason Knight19010732.1%46.3%+14.2pp
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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