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Events · UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley · Ross Pearson vs Jorge Masvidal
From the tape · 30 Jul 2016

Ross Pearson vs Jorge Masvidal

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

Jorge Masvidal beat Ross Pearson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Blake Grice

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.

RP
Red corner RossPearson“The Real Deal”Central Coast MMA · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JorgeMasvidal“Gamebred”American Top Team · Miami, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds30 Jul 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Masvidal.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
20-16
Record
35-17
31
Age
31
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
69″
Reach
+5″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1020
UFC bouts
10
+12%5/1145% of wins
Finishes
2/633% of wins
Central Coast MMA
Gym
American Top Team
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
From
Miami, Florida
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
Ross Pearson12 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 23BODY50%6 of 12LEGS50%6 of 8
Jorge Masvidal32 sig landed
HEAD56%18 of 59BODY25%8 of 10LEGS19%6 of 8
12 of 43
Sig.
strikes
32 of 77
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pearson firstKen Coffey9–10Jon Marigliano9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Masvidal
Ross Pearson18 sig landed
HEAD33%6 of 22BODY33%6 of 9LEGS33%6 of 8
Jorge Masvidal45 sig landed
HEAD78%35 of 70BODY16%7 of 8LEGS7%3 of 4
18 of 39
Sig.
strikes
45 of 82
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:06
Control
0:29
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 12
Judges · this round · Pearson firstKen Coffey9–10Jon Marigliano9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ross Pearson22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 34BODY32%7 of 14LEGS32%7 of 8
Jorge Masvidal36 sig landed
HEAD86%31 of 90BODY8%3 of 5LEGS6%2 of 2
22 of 56
Sig.
strikes
36 of 97
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstKen Coffey10–9Jon Marigliano10–9Jeff Mullen9–10

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 · Blake Grice
Ross PearsonJorge Masvidal
Official totals — Ross Pearson first
JudgeTotal
Ken Coffey28–29
Jon Marigliano28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% 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 — 20 scored, Ross Pearson first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com26–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com26–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com26–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com26–30
John Pollock Fight Network26–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com26–30
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com26–30
Diego Peixoto MMABrasil.com.br26–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com26–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
MM AJunkie.com26–30
Youngs TheMMACorner.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–29
Dana Becker FightLine.com28–29
MM AForum.com.br28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Masvidal · 31%30-26 Masvidal · 31%29-28 Masvidal · 17%29-27 Masvidal · 10%29-28 Pearson · 2%

48 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.

Ross Pearson

0.74takedowns / 15 min
0.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.38 / 15m
2.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.34 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
59%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Jorge Masvidal

1.38takedowns / 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.

Ross Pearson↓ −3.3pp
open 33.1%close 29.8%
Jorge Masvidal↑ +3.3pp
open 66.9%close 70.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ross Pearson opened at 33.1% and closed at 29.8% (−3.3pp), with Jorge Masvidal 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
Ross Pearson18022533.1%29.8%−3.3pp
Jorge Masvidal-260-26566.9%70.2%+3.3pp
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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