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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno · Sergio Pettis vs Brandon Moreno
From the tape · 5 Aug 2017

Sergio Pettis vs Brandon Moreno

UFC Fight Night: Pettis vs. Moreno · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Result

Sergio Pettis beat Brandon Moreno

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMainReferee · 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.

SP
Red corner SergioPettisRoufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BrandonMoreno“The Assassin Baby”Fortis MMA · Tijuana, Baja California
Flyweight5 rounds5 Aug 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Moreno.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
18-5
Record
23-10-2
23
Age
23
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+58
UFC bouts
3
0/60% of wins
Finishes
+67%2/367% of wins
Roufusport
Gym
Fortis MMA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Tijuana, Baja California
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Sergio Pettis0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

Brandon Moreno7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%2 of 3
0 of 3
Sig.
strikes
7 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:33
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón8–10Jeff Mullen8–10
Round 25:00 of action
Sergio Pettis13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 37BODY31%4 of 9LEGS31%4 of 5
Brandon Moreno5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 19BODY40%2 of 5LEGS40%2 of 4
13 of 51
Sig.
strikes
5 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:04
Control
0:21
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Sergio Pettis26 sig landed
HEAD85%22 of 72BODY4%1 of 1LEGS12%3 of 4
Brandon Moreno14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 35BODY50%7 of 9LEGS0%0 of 1
26 of 77
Sig.
strikes
14 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Sergio Pettis24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 63BODY17%4 of 4LEGS12%3 of 5
Brandon Moreno12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 46BODY25%3 of 5LEGS17%2 of 2
24 of 72
Sig.
strikes
12 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sergio Pettis13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 30BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Brandon Moreno7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%1 of 2
13 of 32
Sig.
strikes
7 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:03
Control
2:51
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Jeff Mullen10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Sergio PettisBrandon Moreno
Official totals — Sergio Pettis first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide48–46
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide48–46

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 — 17 scored, Sergio Pettis first · unofficial

Steven Kelliher Tapology.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com48–45
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com48–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com48–45
Phil Santos MMABrasil.com.br48–46
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com48–46
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com48–46
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com48–46
Steve Duncan mma.uno48–46
MM AMania.com48–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com47–46
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com47–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com46–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-46 Pettis · 20%48-47 Pettis · 15%49-46 Pettis · 12%48-45 Pettis · 8%

98 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.

Sergio Pettis

0.85takedowns / 15 min
0.85 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.36 / 15m
2.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.49 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
39%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Brandon Moreno

1.36takedowns / 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.

Sergio Pettis↓ −5.5pp
open 44.2%close 38.7%
Brandon Moreno↑ +5.5pp
open 55.8%close 61.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sergio Pettis opened at 44.2% and closed at 38.7% (−5.5pp), with Brandon Moreno 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
Sergio Pettis11015044.2%38.7%−5.5pp
Brandon Moreno-150-17255.8%61.3%+5.5pp
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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