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Events · UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley · Francisco Rivera vs Erik Perez
From the tape · 30 Jul 2016

Francisco Rivera vs Erik Perez

UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Erik Perez beat Francisco Rivera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · George Allen

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.

FR
Red corner FranciscoRivera“Cisco”
VSOn the tape
EP
Blue corner ErikPerez“Goyito”Alliance MMA · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
Bantamweight3 rounds30 Jul 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Rivera.
11-7
Record
17-6
34
Age
−8 yr26
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+310
UFC bouts
7
+15%3/475% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Francisco Rivera23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 47BODY17%4 of 5LEGS13%3 of 3
Erik Perez14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 50BODY29%4 of 6LEGS43%6 of 6
23 of 55
Sig.
strikes
14 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:28
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Francisco Rivera18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 50BODY17%3 of 6LEGS28%5 of 5
Erik Perez24 sig landed
HEAD29%7 of 35BODY54%13 of 17LEGS17%4 of 4
18 of 61
Sig.
strikes
24 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
0:25
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Francisco Rivera14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 41BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Erik Perez16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 30BODY38%6 of 7LEGS6%1 of 1
14 of 42
Sig.
strikes
16 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:01
Control
4:07
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 9
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · George Allen
Official totals — Francisco Rivera first
JudgeTotal
Jon Marigliano26–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide26–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 21 scored, Francisco Rivera first · unofficial

Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com26–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–29
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
Fernando Justino bjjforum.com.br28–29
Youngs TheMMACorner.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Dana Becker FightLine.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Perez · 50%30-27 Perez · 26%29-27 Perez · 12%30-26 Perez · 9%29-28 Rivera · 3%

34 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.

Francisco Rivera

1.01takedowns / 15 min
1.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.16 / 15m
1.60 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.75 / 15m
63%
ACCURACY
55%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Erik Perez

3.16takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Francisco Rivera↓ −10.8pp
open 52.9%close 42.0%
Erik Perez↑ +10.8pp
open 47.1%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Francisco Rivera opened at 52.9% and closed at 42.0% (−10.8pp), with Erik Perez 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
Francisco Rivera-13513052.9%42.0%−10.8pp
Erik Perez-105-15047.1%58.0%+10.8pp
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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