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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Brunson 2 · Katlyn Cerminara vs Mara Romero Borella
From the tape · 27 Jan 2018

Katlyn Cerminara vs Mara Romero Borella

UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Brunson 2 · Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Result

Katlyn Cerminara beat Mara Romero Borella

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Donnie Jessup

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.

KC
Red corner KatlynCerminaraJersey City, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner Mara RomeroBorellaAmerican Top Team · Ponte dell'Olio, Piacenza
Women's Flyweight3 rounds27 Jan 2018
The story going in
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Borella.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cerminara.
18-6
Record
12-9
−2 yr29
Age
31
+3″5' 9"
Height
5' 6"
68″
Reach
+1″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
0/20% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Jersey City, New Jersey
From
Ponte dell'Olio, Piacenza
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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
Katlyn Cerminara24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 84BODY33%8 of 12LEGS12%3 of 3
Mara Romero Borella34 sig landed
HEAD56%19 of 55BODY3%1 of 1LEGS41%14 of 14
24 of 99
Sig.
strikes
34 of 70
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerminara firstPedro Claudio10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Katlyn Cerminara23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 51BODY48%11 of 15LEGS17%4 of 4
Mara Romero Borella22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 59BODY5%1 of 3LEGS36%8 of 10
23 of 70
Sig.
strikes
22 of 72
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerminara firstPedro Claudio10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Katlyn Cerminara21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 77BODY14%3 of 4LEGS10%2 of 2
Mara Romero Borella23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 56BODY4%1 of 2LEGS35%8 of 11
21 of 83
Sig.
strikes
23 of 69
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:28
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerminara firstPedro Claudio9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Donnie Jessup
Katlyn CerminaraMara Romero Borella
Official totals — Katlyn Cerminara first
JudgeTotal
Pedro Claudio29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Cardo Urso2.0 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 — 14 scored, Katlyn Cerminara first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Extreme Sports Channel29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Shawn Bitter MMA- Today.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Borella Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–30
Borella Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Romero Borella · 52%29-28 Cerminara · 23%30-27 Cerminara · 15%30-27 Romero Borella · 4%30-28 Cerminara · 4%

52 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.

Katlyn Cerminara

0.31takedowns / 15 min
0.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
2.07 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.16 / 15m
15%
ACCURACY
44%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Mara Romero Borella

1.83takedowns / 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 (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Katlyn Cerminara vs Mara Romero Borella.

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