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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson · Marco Polo Reyes vs Jason Novelli
From the tape · 5 Nov 2016

Marco Polo Reyes vs Jason Novelli

UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Ferguson · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Result

Marco Polo Reyes beat Jason Novelli

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

MR
Red corner Marco PoloReyes
VSOn the tape
JN
Blue corner JasonNovelli“Flipside”Team Quest · Vancouver, Washington
Lightweight3 rounds5 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 54 points more takedown defence than Reyes.
  • Lands 4.3 more significant strikes a minute than Novelli.
8-7
Record
11-3-1
−6 yr31
Age
37
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
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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
Marco Polo Reyes9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 32BODY44%4 of 11LEGS33%3 of 6
Jason Novelli10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 36BODY10%1 of 1LEGS40%4 of 5
9 of 49
Sig.
strikes
10 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:05
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 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
Marco Polo Reyes23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 39BODY39%9 of 9LEGS35%8 of 9
Jason Novelli4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 17BODY0%0 of 2LEGS50%2 of 2
23 of 57
Sig.
strikes
4 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:33
Control
0:10
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
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
Marco Polo Reyes18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 51BODY28%5 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
Jason Novelli15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 54BODY13%2 of 5LEGS27%4 of 4
18 of 60
Sig.
strikes
15 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:50
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
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

Decision - Split

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Marco Polo Reyes first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide29–28

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.

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.

Marco Polo Reyes

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
2.12 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
33%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jason Novelli

0.70takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Marco Polo Reyes↑ +7.8pp
open 51.9%close 59.7%
Jason Novelli↓ −7.8pp
open 48.1%close 40.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Marco Polo Reyes opened at 51.9% and closed at 59.7% (+7.8pp), with Jason Novelli 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
Marco Polo Reyes-130-16251.9%59.7%+7.8pp
Jason Novelli-11014048.1%40.3%−7.8pp
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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