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Events · UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold · Jake Matthews vs Li Jingliang
From the tape · 10 Feb 2018

Jake Matthews vs Li Jingliang

UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold · Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Result

Jake Matthews beat Li Jingliang

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mark Simpson

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 JakeMatthews“The Celtic Kid”Nexus · Epping, Victoria
VSOn the tape
LJ
Blue corner LiJingliang“The Leech”
Welterweight3 rounds10 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
23-8
Record
19-9
−6 yr23
Age
29
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
+2″73″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
8
+13%4/580% of wins
Finishes
4/667% of wins
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Matthews
Jake Matthews26 sig landed
HEAD96%25 of 47BODY0%0 of 1LEGS4%1 of 3
Li Jingliang9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS11%1 of 2
26 of 51
Sig.
strikes
9 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:07
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Jake Matthews18 sig landed
HEAD100%18 of 39BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Li Jingliang21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 71BODY5%1 of 1LEGS19%4 of 6
18 of 40
Sig.
strikes
21 of 78
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:09
Control
0:27
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 2
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD MatthewsEnded 5:00
Jake Matthews19 sig landed
HEAD95%18 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%1 of 1
Li Jingliang19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 36BODY16%3 of 3LEGS26%5 of 6
19 of 36
Sig.
strikes
19 of 45
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:09
Control
0:45
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Jake Matthews

1.44takedowns / 15 min
1.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.19 / 15m
3.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.90 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
41%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Li Jingliang

1.19takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Jake Matthews↑ +1.7pp
open 40.8%close 42.5%
Li Jingliang↓ −1.7pp
open 59.2%close 57.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jake Matthews opened at 40.8% and closed at 42.5% (+1.7pp), with Li Jingliang 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
Jake Matthews13012740.8%42.5%+1.7pp
Li Jingliang-170-14759.2%57.5%−1.7pp
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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