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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje · Matthew Lopez vs Alejandro Perez
From the tape · 14 Apr 2018

Matthew Lopez vs Alejandro Perez

UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Alejandro Perez beat Matthew Lopez

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:42
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Nic Jones

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.

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Red corner MatthewLopezGenesis Training Center · Safford, Arizona
VSOn the tape
AP
Blue corner AlejandroPerez“Turbo”American Kickboxing Academy · Mexico
Bantamweight3 rounds14 Apr 2018
The story going in
  • Averages 2.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Perez.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
10-4
Record
23-9-1
31
Age
−3 yr28
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
+2″69″
Reach
67″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+37
1/250% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Genesis Training Center
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Safford, Arizona
From
Mexico
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action2 sub attempts
Matthew Lopez9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 12BODY33%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Alejandro Perez8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS62%5 of 8
9 of 15
Sig.
strikes
8 of 24
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:59
Control
0:23
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 23:42 of actionEnded 3:42
Matthew Lopez13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 16BODY31%4 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
Alejandro Perez36 sig landed
HEAD67%24 of 63BODY22%8 of 8LEGS11%4 of 5
13 of 21
Sig.
strikes
36 of 76
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 3Ground 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

Alejandro Perez

Round
2
Clock
3:42
Method
KO/TKO

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: Nic Jones.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Matthew Lopez

3.32takedowns / 15 min
3.32 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.54 / 15m
5.53 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.45 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
22%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Alejandro Perez

0.54takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Matthew Lopez↑ +5.2pp
open 44.2%close 49.5%
Alejandro Perez↓ −5.2pp
open 55.8%close 50.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matthew Lopez opened at 44.2% and closed at 49.5% (+5.2pp), with Alejandro 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
Matthew Lopez110-10744.2%49.5%+5.2pp
Alejandro Perez-150-11255.8%50.5%−5.2pp
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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