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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi · Mads Burnell vs Mike Santiago
From the tape · 14 Jan 2018

Mads Burnell vs Mike Santiago

UFC Fight Night: Stephens vs. Choi · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Result

Mads Burnell beat Mike Santiago

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Marc Wasem

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.

MB
Red corner MadsBurnellArte Suave Copenhagen · Copenhagen
VSOn the tape
MS
Blue corner MikeSantiago
Featherweight3 rounds14 Jan 2018
The story going in
  • Carries 15 points more striking defence than Santiago.
  • Carries 31 points more takedown defence than Burnell.
9-3
Record
19-12
−5 yr23
Age
28
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
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 action2 sub attempts
Mads Burnell1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Mike Santiago17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 21BODY0%0 of 1LEGS18%3 of 5
1 of 1
Sig.
strikes
17 of 27
1 of 4
Take-
downs
2 of 2
2:24
Control
2:15
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 10Ground 6
Judges · this round · Burnell firstJustin Brown9–10Brian Puccillo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Mads Burnell13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Mike Santiago17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 20BODY18%3 of 3LEGS12%2 of 2
13 of 22
Sig.
strikes
17 of 25
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:14
Control
2:14
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 5
Judges · this round · Burnell firstJustin Brown10–9Brian Puccillo10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mads Burnell6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Mike Santiago17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 15BODY47%8 of 10LEGS6%1 of 2
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
17 of 27
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:33
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 10Ground 5
Judges · this round · Burnell firstJustin Brown10–9Brian Puccillo10–9Marcos 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 · Marc Wasem
Mads BurnellMike Santiago
Official totals — Mads Burnell first
JudgeTotal
Justin Brown29–28
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide29–28
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 — 13 scored, Mads Burnell first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–27
Andrew Lawrence MiddleEasy.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Felipe Freitas MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Adam Guillen MMAMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Burnell · 88%30-27 Burnell · 6%

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.

Mads Burnell

3.45takedowns / 15 min
3.45 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.66 / 15m
7.34 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.32 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
50%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Mike Santiago

2.66takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Mads Burnell↑ +2.0pp
open 33.9%close 35.8%
Mike Santiago↓ −2.0pp
open 66.1%close 64.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mads Burnell opened at 33.9% and closed at 35.8% (+2.0pp), with Mike Santiago 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
Mads Burnell17517033.9%35.8%+2.0pp
Mike Santiago-245-19766.1%64.2%−2.0pp
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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