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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum · Jimmie Rivera vs Thomas Almeida
From the tape · 22 Jul 2017

Jimmie Rivera vs Thomas Almeida

UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum · Uniondale, New York, USA
Result

Jimmie Rivera beat Thomas Almeida

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

JR
Red corner JimmieRivera“El Terror”Team Tiger Schulmann · Ramsey, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
TA
Blue corner ThomasAlmeida“Thominhas”Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Bantamweight3 rounds22 Jul 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Almeida.
23-5
Record
22-5
28
Age
−3 yr25
5' 4"
Height
+3″5' 7"
68″
Reach
+2″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+26
1/425% of wins
Finishes
+55%4/580% of wins
Ramsey, New Jersey
From
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
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⚡ 2 KD Rivera
Jimmie Rivera22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 37BODY32%7 of 11LEGS32%7 of 8
Thomas Almeida28 sig landed
HEAD50%14 of 31BODY14%4 of 5LEGS36%10 of 11
22 of 56
Sig.
strikes
28 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:16
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstDouglas Crosby10–8Bryan Miner10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jimmie Rivera24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 39BODY21%5 of 10LEGS17%4 of 4
Thomas Almeida19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 46BODY21%4 of 6LEGS37%7 of 8
24 of 53
Sig.
strikes
19 of 60
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstDouglas Crosby10–9Bryan Miner10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jimmie Rivera24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 38BODY21%5 of 8LEGS17%4 of 5
Thomas Almeida25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 44BODY20%5 of 9LEGS24%6 of 7
24 of 51
Sig.
strikes
25 of 60
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:34
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstDouglas Crosby10–9Bryan Miner10–9Cardo 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 · Dan Miragliotta
Jimmie RiveraThomas Almeida
Official totals — Jimmie Rivera first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby30–26
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
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, Jimmie Rivera first · unofficial

Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–27
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–27
Combat Press.com29–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Kendrick Johnson The Ring29–28
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rivera · 48%29-27 Rivera · 21%29-28 Almeida · 7%

61 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.

Jimmie Rivera

0.88takedowns / 15 min
0.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.17 / 15m
3.26 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.21 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
14%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Thomas Almeida

0.17takedowns / 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.

Jimmie Rivera→ no move
open 63.6%close 63.7%
Thomas Almeida→ no move
open 36.4%close 36.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Jimmie Rivera opened at 63.6% and closed at 63.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Jimmie Rivera-205-19463.6%63.7%+0.1pp
Thomas Almeida16016636.4%36.3%−0.1pp
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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