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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn · Frankie Saenz vs Augusto Mendes
From the tape · 15 Jan 2017

Frankie Saenz vs Augusto Mendes

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

Augusto Mendes beat Frankie Saenz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

FS
Red corner FrankieSaenzFight Ready · Scottsdale, Arizona
VSOn the tape
AM
Blue corner AugustoMendes“Tanquinho”Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Jan 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 19 points more takedown defence than Saenz.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Mendes.
13-7
Record
6-2
36
Age
−3 yr33
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+1″66″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
Scottsdale, Arizona
From
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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
Frankie Saenz15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 23BODY33%5 of 11LEGS40%6 of 6
Augusto Mendes16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 31BODY12%2 of 3LEGS19%3 of 5
15 of 40
Sig.
strikes
16 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
0:51
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saenz firstChris Flores9–10Brad Frank10–9Dennis O'Connell9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Saenz
Frankie Saenz11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 27BODY27%3 of 8LEGS18%2 of 4
Augusto Mendes11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 26BODY18%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
11 of 39
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:48
Control
0:46
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saenz firstChris Flores10–9Brad Frank10–9Dennis O'Connell10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Frankie Saenz14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 18BODY29%4 of 5LEGS29%4 of 4
Augusto Mendes15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 38BODY13%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
15 of 41
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:45
Control
0:36
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saenz firstChris Flores9–10Brad Frank9–10Dennis O'Connell9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Frankie SaenzAugusto Mendes
Official totals — Frankie Saenz first
JudgeTotal
Chris Flores1.9 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Brad Frank29–28
Dennis O'Connell28–29

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 — 16 scored, Frankie Saenz first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Youngs FanSided.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Mendes · 58%29-28 Saenz · 30%30-27 Saenz · 5%29-27 Saenz · 2%

43 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.

Frankie Saenz

1.74takedowns / 15 min
1.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.75 / 15m
5.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.30 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
33%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Augusto Mendes

1.75takedowns / 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.

Frankie Saenz↓ −6.5pp
open 65.3%close 58.8%
Augusto Mendes↑ +6.5pp
open 34.7%close 41.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Frankie Saenz opened at 65.3% and closed at 58.8% (−6.5pp), with Augusto Mendes 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
Frankie Saenz-230-15565.3%58.8%−6.5pp
Augusto Mendes17013534.7%41.2%+6.5pp
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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