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History · 2016 · UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis · Mitch Gagnon vs Matthew Lopez
From the tape · 10 Dec 2016

Mitch Gagnon vs Matthew Lopez

UFC 206: Holloway vs. Pettis · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Matthew Lopez beat Mitch Gagnon

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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.

MG
Red corner MitchGagnonTroop MMA · Sudbury, Ontario
VSOn the tape
ML
Blue corner MatthewLopezGenesis Training Center · Safford, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds10 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Gagnon.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Lopez.
12-5
Record
10-4
32
Age
−3 yr29
5' 5"
Height
+2″5' 7"
65″
Reach
+4″69″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+56
UFC bouts
1
Troop MMA
Gym
Genesis Training Center
Sudbury, Ontario
From
Safford, Arizona
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Gagnon
Mitch Gagnon24 sig landed
HEAD79%19 of 30BODY17%4 of 4LEGS4%1 of 2
Matthew Lopez11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 14BODY55%6 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
24 of 36
Sig.
strikes
11 of 21
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:22
Control
1:18
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Mitch Gagnon3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY67%2 of 2LEGS33%1 of 1
Matthew Lopez10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS10%1 of 1
3 of 6
Sig.
strikes
10 of 20
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:22
Control
4:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 8
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
Mitch Gagnon4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
Matthew Lopez9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 10BODY33%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 8
Sig.
strikes
9 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:19
Control
3:59
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 3
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 · Jerin Valel
Official totals — Mitch Gagnon first
JudgeTotal
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Greg Jackson28–29
Eric Colon2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–29

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 — 17 scored, Mitch Gagnon first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Youngs FanSided.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–28
MM ABrasil.com.br28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Lopez · 73%28-27 Lopez · 9%

22 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.

Mitch Gagnon

1.16takedowns / 15 min
1.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.32 / 15m
4.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.53 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
60%
1.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Matthew Lopez

3.32takedowns / 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.

Mitch Gagnon↓ −2.8pp
open 57.5%close 54.7%
Matthew Lopez↑ +2.8pp
open 42.5%close 45.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mitch Gagnon opened at 57.5% and closed at 54.7% (−2.8pp), with Matthew Lopez 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
Mitch Gagnon-160-13257.5%54.7%−2.8pp
Matthew Lopez12011242.5%45.3%+2.8pp
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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