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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio · Alexandre Pantoja vs Neil Seery
From the tape · 16 Jul 2017

Alexandre Pantoja vs Neil Seery

UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Result

Alexandre Pantoja beat Neil Seery

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
2:31
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Grant Waterman

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 AlexandrePantoja“The Cannibal”American Top Team · Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
NS
Blue corner NeilSeery“2Tap”Team Ryano · Dublin
Flyweight3 rounds16 Jul 2017
The story going in
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Seery.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Pantoja.
  • Carries 9 points more striking defence than Pantoja.
30-6
Record
16-13
−10 yr27
Age
37
+1″5' 5"
Height
5' 4"
+3″67″
Reach
64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+56
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Team Ryano
Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
From
Dublin
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 Pantoja
Alexandre Pantoja45 sig landed
HEAD40%18 of 63BODY27%12 of 18LEGS33%15 of 18
Neil Seery29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 73BODY10%3 of 3LEGS7%2 of 2
45 of 99
Sig.
strikes
29 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:21
Control
0:04
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 37Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Alexandre Pantoja67 sig landed
HEAD52%35 of 70BODY37%25 of 35LEGS10%7 of 8
Neil Seery47 sig landed
HEAD91%43 of 83BODY6%3 of 5LEGS2%1 of 2
67 of 113
Sig.
strikes
47 of 90
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:49
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 40Clinch 27Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 11Ground 0
Round 32:31 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:31
Alexandre Pantoja7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 12BODY14%1 of 1LEGS29%2 of 2
Neil Seery6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 14BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 15
Sig.
strikes
6 of 15
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:16
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Alexandre Pantoja

Round
3
Clock
2:31
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Grant Waterman.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Alexandre Pantoja

2.79takedowns / 15 min
2.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.78 / 15m
5.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.89 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
27%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.60 / 15m

Neil Seery

0.78takedowns / 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 Flyweight

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.

Alexandre Pantoja↑ +3.7pp
open 71.0%close 74.7%
Neil Seery↓ −3.7pp
open 29.0%close 25.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexandre Pantoja opened at 71.0% and closed at 74.7% (+3.7pp), with Neil Seery 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
Alexandre Pantoja-305-34271.0%74.7%+3.7pp
Neil Seery22528229.0%25.3%−3.7pp
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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