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History · 2017 · UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm · Cynthia Calvillo vs Carla Esparza
From the tape · 30 Dec 2017

Cynthia Calvillo vs Carla Esparza

UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Carla Esparza beat Cynthia Calvillo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain 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.

CC
Red corner CynthiaCalvilloTiger Muay Thai · San Jose, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CarlaEsparza“Cookie Monster”Team Oyama · Redondo Beach, California
Women's Strawweight3 rounds30 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Calvillo.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
9-6-1
Record
20-8
30
Age
30
+3″5' 4"
Height
5' 1"
+1″64″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+25
+33%2/367% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Tiger Muay Thai
Gym
Team Oyama
San Jose, California
From
Redondo Beach, 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Cynthia Calvillo11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 16BODY9%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Carla Esparza6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
6 of 19
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:51
Control
0:12
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Calvillo firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Cynthia Calvillo16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 37BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Carla Esparza20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 36BODY15%3 of 4LEGS35%7 of 7
16 of 40
Sig.
strikes
20 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Calvillo firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cynthia Calvillo11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 53BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Carla Esparza22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 60BODY0%0 of 1LEGS45%10 of 11
11 of 55
Sig.
strikes
22 of 72
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:30
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Calvillo firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10

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
Cynthia CalvilloCarla Esparza
Official totals — Cynthia Calvillo first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29

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 — 21 scored, Cynthia Calvillo first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Josh Stillman Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com28–29
Andrew Lawrence MiddleEasy.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Shane Saunders realsport101.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Youngs FanSided.com29–28
Kendrick Johnson The Ring29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Esparza · 75%29-28 Calvillo · 15%30-27 Esparza · 3%30-27 Calvillo · 3%29-27 Calvillo · 2%

117 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.

Cynthia Calvillo

1.80takedowns / 15 min
1.80 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.28 / 15m
4.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.11 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
36%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Carla Esparza

3.28takedowns / 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.

Cynthia Calvillo↑ +3.0pp
open 62.1%close 65.1%
Carla Esparza↓ −3.0pp
open 37.9%close 34.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cynthia Calvillo opened at 62.1% and closed at 65.1% (+3.0pp), with Carla Esparza 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
Cynthia Calvillo-190-21062.1%65.1%+3.0pp
Carla Esparza15017537.9%34.9%−3.0pp
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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