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History · 2017 · UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis · Aljamain Sterling vs Augusto Mendes
From the tape · 15 Apr 2017

Aljamain Sterling vs Augusto Mendes

UFC on FOX: Johnson vs. Reis · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Result

Aljamain Sterling beat Augusto Mendes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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 AljamainSterling“Funk Master”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Cortland, New York
VSOn the tape
AM
Blue corner AugustoMendes“Tanquinho”Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Apr 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 36 points more takedown defence than Sterling.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
26-5
Record
6-2
−7 yr27
Age
34
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
+6″71″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+46
UFC bouts
2
3/475% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Cortland, New York
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⚡ 1 KD Mendes
Aljamain Sterling23 sig landed
HEAD4%1 of 15BODY78%18 of 21LEGS17%4 of 10
Augusto Mendes9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 13BODY22%2 of 3LEGS44%4 of 4
23 of 46
Sig.
strikes
9 of 20
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:24
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Cardo Urso9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Aljamain Sterling23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 27BODY52%12 of 15LEGS13%3 of 4
Augusto Mendes12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 22BODY33%4 of 5LEGS25%3 of 3
23 of 46
Sig.
strikes
12 of 30
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:27
Control
1:35
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 5Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aljamain Sterling37 sig landed
HEAD51%19 of 48BODY43%16 of 19LEGS5%2 of 2
Augusto Mendes9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 38BODY11%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 69
Sig.
strikes
9 of 41
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:09
Control
1:27
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Mario Yamasaki
Aljamain SterlingAugusto Mendes
Official totals — Aljamain Sterling first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 19 scored, Aljamain Sterling first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Sterling · 50%29-28 Sterling · 46%29-28 Mendes · 4%

24 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.

Aljamain Sterling

2.54takedowns / 15 min
2.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.75 / 15m
7.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.30 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
33%
0.60 / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Aljamain Sterling↑ +12.4pp
open 64.4%close 76.8%
Augusto Mendes↓ −12.4pp
open 35.6%close 23.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aljamain Sterling opened at 64.4% and closed at 76.8% (+12.4pp), 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
Aljamain Sterling-215-38764.4%76.8%+12.4pp
Augusto Mendes16531735.6%23.2%−12.4pp
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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