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Events · UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold · Jussier Formiga vs Ben Nguyen
From the tape · 10 Feb 2018

Jussier Formiga vs Ben Nguyen

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

Jussier Formiga beat Ben Nguyen

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
1:43
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Peter Hickmott

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.

JF
Red corner JussierFormigaAmerican Top Team · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
VSOn the tape
BN
Blue corner BenNguyen“Ten”Integrated MMA · Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Flyweight3 rounds10 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Nguyen.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
23-8
Record
16-8
32
Age
−3 yr29
5' 5"
Height
5' 5"
+2″67″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+510
UFC bouts
5
2/633% of wins
Finishes
+42%3/475% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Integrated MMA
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
From
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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
Jussier Formiga5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Ben Nguyen11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 13BODY55%6 of 7LEGS9%1 of 2
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
11 of 22
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:45
Control
0:48
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 9Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Jussier Formiga8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 16BODY12%1 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
Ben Nguyen9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 21BODY44%4 of 6LEGS22%2 of 2
8 of 20
Sig.
strikes
9 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:03
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 1
Round 31:43 of action⚡ 1 KD Formiga1 sub attemptEnded 1:43
Jussier Formiga14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 19BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Nguyen1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 12BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 20
Sig.
strikes
1 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Jussier Formiga

Round
3
Clock
1:43
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Peter Hickmott.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Jussier Formiga

1.82takedowns / 15 min
1.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.25 / 15m
5.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.76 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
33%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ben Nguyen

0.25takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Jussier Formiga↓ −7.4pp
open 57.8%close 50.3%
Ben Nguyen↑ +7.4pp
open 42.2%close 49.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jussier Formiga opened at 57.8% and closed at 50.3% (−7.4pp), with Ben Nguyen 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
Jussier Formiga-155-11157.8%50.3%−7.4pp
Ben Nguyen125-10842.2%49.7%+7.4pp
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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