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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Eryk Anders vs Markus Perez
From the tape · 9 Dec 2017

Eryk Anders vs Markus Perez

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Fresno, California, USA
Result

Eryk Anders beat Markus Perez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 ErykAnders“Ya Boi”Spartan Fitness MMA · Birmingham, Alabama
VSOn the tape
MP
Blue corner MarkusPerez“Maluko”Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Middleweight3 rounds9 Dec 2017
18-9
Record
12-5
30
Age
−1 yr29
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Birmingham, Alabama
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 action1 sub attempt
Eryk Anders16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 21BODY44%7 of 10LEGS6%1 of 1
Markus Perez8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 16BODY50%4 of 5LEGS12%1 of 1
16 of 32
Sig.
strikes
8 of 22
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:57
Control
0:46
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Anders firstAbe Belardo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Eryk Anders39 sig landed
HEAD82%32 of 59BODY18%7 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Markus Perez19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 16BODY47%9 of 11LEGS11%2 of 2
39 of 69
Sig.
strikes
19 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:35
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 8Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · Anders firstAbe Belardo10–8Ron McCarthy10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Eryk Anders24 sig landed
HEAD92%22 of 37BODY8%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Markus Perez3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 7BODY33%1 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
24 of 40
Sig.
strikes
3 of 9
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:18
Control
0:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Anders firstAbe Belardo10–8Ron McCarthy10–8Marcos 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 · Mark Smith
Eryk AndersMarkus Perez
Official totals — Eryk Anders first
JudgeTotal
Abe Belardo2.5 avg spread · 65% wide30–25
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–26
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% 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 — 15 scored, Eryk Anders first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–25
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–25
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–25
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
Combat Press.com30–26
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–26
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
MM ABrasil.com.br29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Anders · 46%30-26 Anders · 33%30-27 Anders · 17%29-26 Anders · 4%

24 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.

Eryk Anders

1.83takedowns / 15 min
1.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.81 / 15m
7.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.24 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
25%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Markus Perez

0.81takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Eryk Anders↑ +7.7pp
open 71.8%close 79.5%
Markus Perez↓ −7.7pp
open 28.2%close 20.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Eryk Anders opened at 71.8% and closed at 79.5% (+7.7pp), with Markus Perez 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
Eryk Anders-315-45571.8%79.5%+7.7pp
Markus Perez23537228.2%20.5%−7.7pp
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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