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Events · UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros · James Vick vs Francisco Trinaldo
From the tape · 18 Feb 2018

James Vick vs Francisco Trinaldo

UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros · Austin, Texas, USA
Result

James Vick beat Francisco Trinaldo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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.

JV
Red corner JamesVick“The Texecutioner”Team Lloyd Irvin · Mineral Wells, Texas
VSOn the tape
FT
Blue corner FranciscoTrinaldo“Massaranduba”Brazilian TKO · Brasilia, Federal District
Lightweight3 rounds18 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Vick.
13-5
Record
28-9
−9 yr30
Age
39
+6″6' 3"
Height
5' 9"
+6″76″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
9
UFC bouts
+716
+21%5/862% of wins
Finishes
5/1242% of wins
Team Lloyd Irvin
Gym
Brazilian TKO
Mineral Wells, Texas
From
Brasilia, Federal District
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 action⚡ 1 KD Vick1 sub attempt
James Vick23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 41BODY52%12 of 18LEGS9%2 of 2
Francisco Trinaldo7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 22BODY57%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 61
Sig.
strikes
7 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:12
Control
1:09
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstChris Lee10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Nick Wright10–9
Round 25:00 of action
James Vick25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 33BODY48%12 of 14LEGS8%2 of 3
Francisco Trinaldo9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 20BODY67%6 of 8LEGS0%0 of 2
25 of 50
Sig.
strikes
9 of 30
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:15
Control
0:21
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstChris Lee10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Nick Wright10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
James Vick20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 26BODY70%14 of 18LEGS10%2 of 3
Francisco Trinaldo10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 25BODY60%6 of 7LEGS0%0 of 1
20 of 47
Sig.
strikes
10 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstChris Lee9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Nick Wright9–10

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 · Kerry Hatley
James VickFrancisco Trinaldo
Official totals — James Vick first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Nick Wright29–28

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 — 17 scored, James Vick first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Chris Connor The Fight City30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Nolan King MMA- Today.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vick · 50%30-27 Vick · 35%29-28 Trinaldo · 8%30-28 Vick · 2%

48 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.

James Vick

0.26takedowns / 15 min
0.26 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.98 / 15m
0.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.33 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
42%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Francisco Trinaldo

0.98takedowns / 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.

James Vick↓ −1.5pp
open 66.1%close 64.6%
Francisco Trinaldo↑ +1.5pp
open 33.9%close 35.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

James Vick opened at 66.1% and closed at 64.6% (−1.5pp), with Francisco Trinaldo 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
James Vick-245-20566.1%64.6%−1.5pp
Francisco Trinaldo17517233.9%35.4%+1.5pp
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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