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Events · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje · Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Cortney Casey
From the tape · 14 Apr 2018

Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Cortney Casey

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

Michelle Waterson-Gomez beat Cortney Casey

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

MW
Red corner MichelleWaterson-GomezJackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
CC
Blue corner CortneyCasey“Cast Iron”MMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Women's Strawweight3 rounds14 Apr 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Casey.
18-13
Record
10-10
32
Age
−2 yr30
5' 3"
Height
+4″5' 7"
62″
Reach
+5″67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+37
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
MMA Lab
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Michelle Waterson-Gomez23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 20BODY17%4 of 6LEGS35%8 of 10
Cortney Casey16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 29BODY19%3 of 4LEGS25%4 of 5
23 of 36
Sig.
strikes
16 of 38
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
0:23
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Flores10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Michelle Waterson-Gomez16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 15BODY6%1 of 1LEGS31%5 of 5
Cortney Casey11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 21BODY18%2 of 2LEGS9%1 of 2
16 of 21
Sig.
strikes
11 of 25
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:46
Control
0:23
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Flores10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Michelle Waterson-Gomez22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 14BODY36%8 of 8LEGS23%5 of 5
Cortney Casey9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 29BODY22%2 of 2LEGS22%2 of 2
22 of 27
Sig.
strikes
9 of 33
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:42
Control
0:56
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 3
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Flores9–10Dave Hagen9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Michelle Waterson-GomezCortney Casey
Official totals — Michelle Waterson-Gomez first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Flores1.9 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28

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, Michelle Waterson-Gomez first · unofficial

Chris Connor The Fight City29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Josh Stillman Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Nolan King MMA- Today.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–30
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Casey · 50%29-28 Waterson-Gomez · 28%30-27 Casey · 15%30-27 Waterson-Gomez · 2%

151 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.

Michelle Waterson-Gomez

1.39takedowns / 15 min
1.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.39 / 15m
4.21 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.26 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
31%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Cortney Casey

0.39takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Cortney Casey.

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