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History · 2017 · UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee · Matt Schnell vs Marco Beltran
From the tape · 7 Oct 2017

Matt Schnell vs Marco Beltran

UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Matt Schnell beat Marco Beltran

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 MattSchnell“Danger”Fortis MMA · Shreveport, Louisiana
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MarcoBeltran“Psycho”Aranha Barcelona BJJ · Mexico City
Flyweight3 rounds7 Oct 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Beltran.
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Schnell.
17-11
Record
8-6
−4 yr27
Age
31
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+35
Fortis MMA
Gym
Aranha Barcelona BJJ
Shreveport, Louisiana
From
Mexico City
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
Matt Schnell16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 39BODY12%2 of 5LEGS25%4 of 8
Marco Beltran11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 19BODY18%2 of 3LEGS36%4 of 6
16 of 52
Sig.
strikes
11 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstSal D'Amato10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Schnell9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 34BODY0%0 of 1LEGS56%5 of 6
Marco Beltran10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 26BODY20%2 of 3LEGS50%5 of 8
9 of 41
Sig.
strikes
10 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstSal D'Amato10–9Jeff Mullen9–10Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Matt Schnell13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 40BODY0%0 of 3LEGS23%3 of 4
Marco Beltran13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 35BODY23%3 of 4LEGS31%4 of 5
13 of 47
Sig.
strikes
13 of 44
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:16
Control
0:11
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstSal D'Amato10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Marcos Rosales10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Matt SchnellMarco Beltran
Official totals — Matt Schnell first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

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 — 12 scored, Matt Schnell first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Schnell · 56%30-27 Schnell · 44%

16 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.

Matt Schnell

0.60takedowns / 15 min
0.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
1.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.40 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
50%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Marco Beltran

0.70takedowns / 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.

Matt Schnell↓ −8.0pp
open 62.1%close 54.1%
Marco Beltran↑ +8.0pp
open 37.9%close 45.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Schnell opened at 62.1% and closed at 54.1% (−8.0pp), with Marco Beltran 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
Matt Schnell-190-12962.1%54.1%−8.0pp
Marco Beltran15010937.9%45.9%+8.0pp
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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