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Events · UFC on FOX: Holm vs. Shevchenko · Michel Prazeres vs JC Cottrell
From the tape · 23 Jul 2016

Michel Prazeres vs JC Cottrell

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

Michel Prazeres beat JC Cottrell

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

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.

MP
Red corner MichelPrazeres“Tractor”Belem, Para
VSOn the tape
JC
Blue corner JCCottrell
Lightweight3 rounds23 Jul 2016
26-4
Record
17-5
34
Age
−8 yr26
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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 action1 sub attempt
Michel Prazeres2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
JC Cottrell2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%2 of 2
2 of 5
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:32
Control
1:22
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Prazeres firstSal D'Amato10–9Brandon Mason10–8Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Michel Prazeres9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 4BODY44%4 of 4LEGS22%2 of 2
JC Cottrell4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 2
9 of 10
Sig.
strikes
4 of 16
5 of 9
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:48
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Prazeres firstSal D'Amato10–9Brandon Mason10–9Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michel Prazeres37 sig landed
HEAD73%27 of 48BODY27%10 of 13LEGS0%0 of 1
JC Cottrell8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 28BODY12%1 of 1LEGS12%1 of 1
37 of 62
Sig.
strikes
8 of 30
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:24
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Prazeres firstSal D'Amato10–9Brandon Mason10–9Brian Puccillo10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Robert Madrigal
Michel PrazeresJC Cottrell
Official totals — Michel Prazeres first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Brandon Mason30–26
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide30–27

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 — 14 scored, Michel Prazeres first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–27
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AForum.com.br30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
John Pollock Fight Network30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Prazeres · 100%

6 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.

Michel Prazeres

3.94takedowns / 15 min
3.94 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.79 / 15m
10.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.79 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
100%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

JC Cottrell

0.79takedowns / 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.

Michel Prazeresclose only
no opening line on recordclose 66.3%
JC Cottrellclose only
no opening line on recordclose 33.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Michel Prazeres 66.3%, JC Cottrell 33.7%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Michel Prazeres-260-22266.3%
JC Cottrell18533.7%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for J.C. Cottrell, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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