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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens · Eric Shelton vs Alex Perez
From the tape · 24 Feb 2018

Eric Shelton vs Alex Perez

UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens · Orlando, Florida, USA
Result

Alex Perez beat Eric Shelton

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Jorge Alonso

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.

ES
Red corner EricShelton“Showtime”Take The Fight Academy · Lawton, Oklahoma
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexPerezTeam Oyama · Lemoore, California
Flyweight3 rounds24 Feb 2018
12-6
Record
26-11
27
Age
−2 yr25
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+3″68″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Take The Fight Academy
Gym
Team Oyama
Lawton, Oklahoma
From
Lemoore, California
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
Eric Shelton18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 36BODY17%3 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Alex Perez13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 31BODY0%0 of 2LEGS46%6 of 6
18 of 40
Sig.
strikes
13 of 39
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:31
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Shelton firstRichard Bertrand9–10Roy Silbert9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Eric Shelton10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 17BODY50%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Alex Perez6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 18BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
10 of 22
Sig.
strikes
6 of 22
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:02
Control
3:23
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Shelton firstRichard Bertrand9–10Roy Silbert9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Eric Shelton13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 45BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
Alex Perez10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 15BODY20%2 of 2LEGS40%4 of 4
13 of 47
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 6
0:00
Control
2:04
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Shelton firstRichard Bertrand9–10Roy Silbert9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Jorge Alonso
Eric SheltonAlex Perez
Official totals — Eric Shelton first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide27–30

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 — 12 scored, Eric Shelton first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Tony Fagnano MMA- Today.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Sherdog.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Perez · 90%29-28 Perez · 10%

10 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.

Eric Shelton

2.83takedowns / 15 min
2.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.21 / 15m
5.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.60 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
48%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Alex Perez

2.21takedowns / 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.

Eric Shelton↑ +11.8pp
open 42.5%close 54.3%
Alex Perez↓ −11.8pp
open 57.5%close 45.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Eric Shelton opened at 42.5% and closed at 54.3% (+11.8pp), with Alex Perez 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
Eric Shelton120-13042.5%54.3%+11.8pp
Alex Perez-16011057.5%45.7%−11.8pp
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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