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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Weidman vs. Gastelum · Patrick Cummins vs Gian Villante
From the tape · 22 Jul 2017

Patrick Cummins vs Gian Villante

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

Patrick Cummins beat Gian Villante

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

PC
Red corner PatrickCummins“Durkin”Reinholds, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
GV
Blue corner GianVillanteBellmore Kickboxing Academy · Bellmore, New York
Light Heavyweight3 rounds22 Jul 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Averages 4.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Villante.
  • Carries 55 points more takedown defence than Cummins.
10-7
Record
17-14
36
Age
−5 yr31
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
76″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+110
2/540% of wins
Finishes
+40%4/580% of wins
Reinholds, Pennsylvania
From
Bellmore, New York
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
Patrick Cummins17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 37BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 1
Gian Villante23 sig landed
HEAD91%21 of 53BODY4%1 of 1LEGS4%1 of 1
17 of 39
Sig.
strikes
23 of 55
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Cummins firstSal D'Amato9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Patrick Cummins37 sig landed
HEAD81%30 of 62BODY14%5 of 7LEGS5%2 of 2
Gian Villante24 sig landed
HEAD88%21 of 68BODY4%1 of 2LEGS8%2 of 2
37 of 71
Sig.
strikes
24 of 72
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:19
Control
0:00
Distance 35Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cummins firstSal D'Amato10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Patrick Cummins32 sig landed
HEAD78%25 of 64BODY3%1 of 1LEGS19%6 of 7
Gian Villante25 sig landed
HEAD96%24 of 68BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
32 of 72
Sig.
strikes
25 of 69
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cummins firstSal D'Amato9–10Jeff Mullen10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Patrick CumminsGian Villante
Official totals — Patrick Cummins first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 16 scored, Patrick Cummins first · unofficial

Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Kendrick Johnson The Ring29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cummins · 64%29-28 Villante · 28%30-28 Cummins · 4%30-27 Cummins · 2%

47 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.

Patrick Cummins

4.49takedowns / 15 min
4.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.45 / 15m
10.95 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.96 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
23%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Gian Villante

0.45takedowns / 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.

Patrick Cummins↓ −16.5pp
open 51.9%close 35.4%
Gian Villante↑ +16.5pp
open 48.1%close 64.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Patrick Cummins opened at 51.9% and closed at 35.4% (−16.5pp), with Gian Villante 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
Patrick Cummins-13017251.9%35.4%−16.5pp
Gian Villante-110-20548.1%64.6%+16.5pp
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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