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Events · UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington · Markus Perez vs James Bochnovic
From the tape · 12 May 2018

Markus Perez vs James Bochnovic

UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Markus Perez beat James Bochnovic

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
4:28
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Fernando Portella

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.

MP
Red corner MarkusPerez“Maluko”Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
JB
Blue corner JamesBochnovicKenosha, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds12 May 2018
12-5
Record
8-3
29
Age
29
6' 1"
Height
+3″6' 4"
73″
Reach
+8″81″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
From
Kenosha, Wisconsin
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

1 round of tape

Round 14:28 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 4:28
Markus Perez4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 3BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
James Bochnovic3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 3BODY67%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 4
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:17
Control
0:59
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1

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

Markus Perez

Round
1
Clock
4:28
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: Fernando Portella.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Markus Perez

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.81takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.81 landed per 15 minutes — −1.46 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS22
0.81 / 15m−1.46 vs field
ATTEMPTS38
3.24 / 15m−2.08 vs field
ACCURACY18
25%−22pp vs field
SUB ATT58
1.00 / 15m−0.56 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Markus Perez↑ +8.8pp
open 64.3%close 73.1%
James Bochnovic↓ −8.8pp
open 35.7%close 26.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Markus Perez opened at 64.3% and closed at 73.1% (+8.8pp), with James Bochnovic 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
Markus Perez-200-31064.3%73.1%+8.8pp
James Bochnovic17026035.7%26.9%−8.8pp
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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