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Events · UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 · Henry Cejudo vs Sergio Pettis
From the tape · 2 Dec 2017

Henry Cejudo vs Sergio Pettis

UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo 2 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Result

Henry Cejudo beat Sergio Pettis

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

HC
Red corner HenryCejudo“Triple C”Fight Ready · Phoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
SP
Blue corner SergioPettisRoufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Flyweight3 rounds2 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Is 10 points more accurate striking than Pettis.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Cejudo.
16-6
Record
18-5
30
Age
−6 yr24
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
64″
Reach
+5″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+29
+20%1/520% of wins
Finishes
0/70% of wins
Fight Ready
Gym
Roufusport
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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
Henry Cejudo19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 16BODY37%7 of 9LEGS21%4 of 5
Sergio Pettis7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%2 of 2
19 of 30
Sig.
strikes
7 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:42
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cejudo firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Roy Silbert10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Henry Cejudo5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 17BODY40%2 of 3LEGS20%1 of 1
Sergio Pettis5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 26BODY40%2 of 3LEGS20%1 of 1
5 of 21
Sig.
strikes
5 of 30
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:07
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Cejudo firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Roy Silbert10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Henry Cejudo12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 28BODY8%1 of 1LEGS25%3 of 3
Sergio Pettis13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 50BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 32
Sig.
strikes
13 of 51
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:45
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cejudo firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Roy Silbert10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Henry CejudoSergio Pettis
Official totals — Henry Cejudo first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 19 scored, Henry Cejudo first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAFighting.com30–26
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Youngs FanSided.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Kendrick Johnson The Ring30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Cejudo · 97%29-28 Cejudo · 3%

30 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.

Henry Cejudo

1.78takedowns / 15 min
1.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.85 / 15m
6.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.12 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
40%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Sergio Pettis

0.85takedowns / 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.

Henry Cejudo↓ −1.8pp
open 74.3%close 72.6%
Sergio Pettis↑ +1.8pp
open 25.7%close 27.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Henry Cejudo opened at 74.3% and closed at 72.6% (−1.8pp), with Sergio Pettis 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
Henry Cejudo-385-30274.3%72.6%−1.8pp
Sergio Pettis26525225.7%27.4%+1.8pp
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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