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History · 2016 · UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor · Miesha Tate vs Raquel Pennington
From the tape · 12 Nov 2016

Miesha Tate vs Raquel Pennington

UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor · New York City, New York, USA
Result

Raquel Pennington beat Miesha Tate

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

MT
Red corner MieshaTate“Cupcake”Xtreme Couture · Tacoma, Washington
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RaquelPennington“Rocky”Altitude MMA · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds12 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Pennington.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
20-10
Record
16-10
30
Age
−2 yr28
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
65″
Reach
+2″67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+18
UFC bouts
7
1/520% of wins
Finishes
+20%2/540% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Altitude MMA
Tacoma, Washington
From
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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 action2 sub attempts
Miesha Tate7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 13BODY43%3 of 13LEGS29%2 of 3
Raquel Pennington8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 20BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
7 of 29
Sig.
strikes
8 of 21
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:35
Control
0:20
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tate firstDerek Cleary9–10Douglas Crosby10–9Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Miesha Tate13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 17BODY62%8 of 15LEGS0%0 landed
Raquel Pennington24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 29BODY33%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 32
Sig.
strikes
24 of 37
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:36
Control
1:57
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 13Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tate firstDerek Cleary9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Miesha Tate1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Raquel Pennington11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS27%3 of 3
1 of 4
Sig.
strikes
11 of 19
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:15
Control
4:30
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 11
Judges · this round · Tate firstDerek Cleary9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Jeff 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 · Dan Miragliotta
Miesha TateRaquel Pennington
Official totals — Miesha Tate first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Douglas Crosby28–29
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 — 22 scored, Miesha Tate first · unofficial

Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–30
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com27–30
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com27–30
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Pedro Carneiro MMABrasil.com.br27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM AForum.com.br27–30
Phil Murphy ESPN27–30
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Youngs FanSided.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pennington · 67%29-28 Pennington · 21%30-25 Pennington · 2%29-28 Tate · 2%30-28 Pennington · 2%

52 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.

Miesha Tate

1.97takedowns / 15 min
1.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.83 / 15m
6.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.07 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
27%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Raquel Pennington

0.83takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's 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.

Miesha Tate↓ −14.1pp
open 69.4%close 55.3%
Raquel Pennington↑ +14.1pp
open 30.6%close 44.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Miesha Tate opened at 69.4% and closed at 55.3% (−14.1pp), with Raquel Pennington 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
Miesha Tate-255-13569.4%55.3%−14.1pp
Raquel Pennington21511530.6%44.7%+14.1pp
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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