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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne · Carla Esparza vs Randa Markos
From the tape · 19 Feb 2017

Carla Esparza vs Randa Markos

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Browne · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Result

Randa Markos beat Carla Esparza

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

Red corner CarlaEsparza“Cookie Monster”Team Oyama · Redondo Beach, California
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RandaMarkos“Quiet Storm”Michigan Top Team · Windsor, Ontario
Women's Strawweight3 rounds19 Feb 2017
20-8
Record
11-12-1
−2 yr29
Age
31
5' 1"
Height
+3″5' 4"
63″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+25
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Team Oyama
Gym
Michigan Top Team
Redondo Beach, California
From
Windsor, Ontario
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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
Carla Esparza10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Randa Markos26 sig landed
HEAD100%26 of 49BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 29
Sig.
strikes
26 of 49
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:15
Control
0:14
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 21
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
Carla Esparza13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 50BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Randa Markos10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
13 of 51
Sig.
strikes
10 of 25
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
0:04
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 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 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Carla Esparza9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 48BODY22%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Randa Markos12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 35BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 52
Sig.
strikes
12 of 36
2 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
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

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Official totals — Carla Esparza first
JudgeTotal
Robert MacAvoy29–28
Hubert Earle28–29
Don Robinson28–29

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 — 23 scored, Carla Esparza first · unofficial

MM AMania.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Brad Ritcey Wrestling Observer29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Youngs FanSided.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Dominik Durniat Extreme Sports Channel29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Severe MMA.com29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Markos · 54%29-28 Esparza · 34%30-27 Esparza · 4%30-28 Esparza · 2%

197 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.

Carla Esparza

3.28takedowns / 15 min
3.28 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.12 / 15m
9.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
28%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Randa Markos

1.12takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Carla Esparza↑ +5.1pp
open 63.8%close 68.8%
Randa Markos↓ −5.1pp
open 36.2%close 31.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Carla Esparza opened at 63.8% and closed at 68.8% (+5.1pp), with Randa Markos 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
Carla Esparza-210-25763.8%68.8%+5.1pp
Randa Markos16020736.2%31.2%−5.1pp
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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