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History · 2016 · UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Leslie Smith vs Irene Aldana
From the tape · 17 Dec 2016

Leslie Smith vs Irene Aldana

UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Leslie Smith beat Irene Aldana

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

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.

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Red corner LeslieSmith“The Peacemaker”Cesar Gracie Fight Team · Pleasant Hill, California
VSOn the tape
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Blue corner IreneAldanaLobo Gym MMA · Guadalajara, Jalisco
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds17 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • Lands 2.4 more significant strikes a minute than Aldana.
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Smith.
10-7-1
Record
15-8
34
Age
−6 yr28
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
66″
Reach
+2″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
Gym
Lobo Gym MMA
Pleasant Hill, California
From
Guadalajara, Jalisco
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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⚡ 1 KD Smith
Leslie Smith67 sig landed
HEAD84%56 of 137BODY7%5 of 10LEGS9%6 of 6
Irene Aldana37 sig landed
HEAD73%27 of 82BODY8%3 of 3LEGS19%7 of 8
67 of 153
Sig.
strikes
37 of 93
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 54Clinch 7Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Smith firstMike Guingona10–9Brandon Saucedo10–9Wade Vierra10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Leslie Smith52 sig landed
HEAD62%32 of 92BODY19%10 of 16LEGS19%10 of 12
Irene Aldana33 sig landed
HEAD82%27 of 78BODY9%3 of 5LEGS9%3 of 5
52 of 120
Sig.
strikes
33 of 88
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 51Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Smith firstMike Guingona9–10Brandon Saucedo10–9Wade Vierra10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Leslie Smith50 sig landed
HEAD76%38 of 106BODY18%9 of 16LEGS6%3 of 6
Irene Aldana38 sig landed
HEAD79%30 of 65BODY8%3 of 3LEGS13%5 of 7
50 of 128
Sig.
strikes
38 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:01
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 45Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Smith firstMike Guingona10–9Brandon Saucedo10–9Wade Vierra9–10

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 · Mike Beltran
Leslie SmithIrene Aldana
Official totals — Leslie Smith first
JudgeTotal
Mike Guingona29–28
Brandon Saucedo30–27
Wade Vierra1.8 avg spread · 33% wide29–28

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 — 17 scored, Leslie Smith first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Youngs FanSided.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–27
MM AMania.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
MM AForum.com.br29–28
Diego Peixoto MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Smith · 54%29-28 Smith · 18%29-28 Aldana · 12%30-26 Smith · 9%30-28 Smith · 6%

33 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.

Leslie Smith

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.15 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
0.30 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Irene Aldana

0.15takedowns / 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.

Leslie Smith↓ −6.8pp
open 34.7%close 27.9%
Irene Aldana↑ +6.8pp
open 65.3%close 72.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Leslie Smith opened at 34.7% and closed at 27.9% (−6.8pp), with Irene Aldana 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
Leslie Smith17024734.7%27.9%−6.8pp
Irene Aldana-230-29465.3%72.1%+6.8pp
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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