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Events · UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 · Joseph Benavidez vs Sergio Pettis
From the tape · 9 Jun 2018

Joseph Benavidez vs Sergio Pettis

UFC 225: Whittaker vs. Romero 2 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Sergio Pettis beat Joseph Benavidez

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Robert Madrigal

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.

JB
Red corner JosephBenavidezXtreme Couture · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
SP
Blue corner SergioPettisRoufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Flyweight3 rounds9 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 12 UFC wins.
28-8
Record
18-5
33
Age
−9 yr24
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
65″
Reach
+4″69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+414
UFC bouts
10
+33%4/1233% of wins
Finishes
0/70% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Roufusport
Sacramento, California
From
Milwaukee, 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 — 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
Joseph Benavidez25 sig landed
HEAD48%12 of 35BODY24%6 of 12LEGS28%7 of 12
Sergio Pettis25 sig landed
HEAD100%25 of 59BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 59
Sig.
strikes
25 of 60
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Benavidez firstMichael Bell9–10Kelvin Caldwell9–10Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Joseph Benavidez14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 38BODY14%2 of 10LEGS36%5 of 6
Sergio Pettis22 sig landed
HEAD91%20 of 41BODY9%2 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 54
Sig.
strikes
22 of 47
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:55
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benavidez firstMichael Bell10–9Kelvin Caldwell9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Joseph Benavidez20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 55BODY30%6 of 11LEGS25%5 of 7
Sergio Pettis27 sig landed
HEAD89%24 of 55BODY11%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 73
Sig.
strikes
27 of 61
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:15
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benavidez firstMichael Bell9–10Kelvin Caldwell9–10Brian Puccillo10–9

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 · Robert Madrigal
Joseph BenavidezSergio Pettis
Official totals — Joseph Benavidez first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Kelvin Caldwell27–30
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% 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 — 22 scored, Joseph Benavidez first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–30
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Nolan King MMA- Today.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Fight Matrix.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Benavidez · 60%29-28 Pettis · 22%30-27 Pettis · 12%30-27 Benavidez · 1%

213 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.

Joseph Benavidez

1.41takedowns / 15 min
1.41 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.85 / 15m
4.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.12 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
40%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Sergio Pettis

0.85takedowns / 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.

Joseph Benavidez↓ −2.4pp
open 66.9%close 64.5%
Sergio Pettis↑ +2.4pp
open 33.1%close 35.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joseph Benavidez opened at 66.9% and closed at 64.5% (−2.4pp), with Sergio Pettis 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
Joseph Benavidez-260-20266.9%64.5%−2.4pp
Sergio Pettis18017233.1%35.5%+2.4pp
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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