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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick · Andrew Sanchez vs Markus Perez
From the tape · 25 Aug 2018

Andrew Sanchez vs Markus Perez

UFC Fight Night: Gaethje vs. Vick · Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Result

Andrew Sanchez beat Markus Perez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Dave Jobeun

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.

AS
Red corner AndrewSanchez“El Dirte”Tristar Gym · St. Louis, Missouri
VSOn the tape
MP
Blue corner MarkusPerez“Maluko”Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Middleweight3 rounds25 Aug 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Perez.
13-7
Record
12-5
30
Age
30
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
+1″74″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
0/20% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
St. Louis, Missouri
From
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
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
Andrew Sanchez8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 21BODY25%2 of 2LEGS25%2 of 4
Markus Perez14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 14BODY50%7 of 10LEGS14%2 of 2
8 of 27
Sig.
strikes
14 of 26
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:39
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstSal D'Amato10–9Matt Prieto9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Andrew Sanchez24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 46BODY21%5 of 8LEGS8%2 of 4
Markus Perez17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 25BODY65%11 of 14LEGS6%1 of 3
24 of 58
Sig.
strikes
17 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:32
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstSal D'Amato9–10Matt Prieto10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Andrew Sanchez41 sig landed
HEAD56%23 of 52BODY34%14 of 17LEGS10%4 of 5
Markus Perez23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 40BODY48%11 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
41 of 74
Sig.
strikes
23 of 54
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:30
Control
0:07
Distance 39Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstSal D'Amato10–9Matt Prieto10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Dave Jobeun
Andrew SanchezMarkus Perez
Official totals — Andrew Sanchez first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Matt Prieto29–28
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% 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 — 15 scored, Andrew Sanchez first · unofficial

Nolan King MMA- Today.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Perez · 39%29-28 Sanchez · 28%30-27 Sanchez · 22%30-27 Perez · 6%

18 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.

Andrew Sanchez

2.55takedowns / 15 min
2.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.81 / 15m
7.08 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.24 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
25%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Markus Perez

0.81takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Andrew Sanchez↑ +13.7pp
open 42.5%close 56.2%
Markus Perez↓ −13.7pp
open 57.5%close 43.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Andrew Sanchez opened at 42.5% and closed at 56.2% (+13.7pp), with Markus 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
Andrew Sanchez120-14042.5%56.2%+13.7pp
Markus Perez-16012057.5%43.8%−13.7pp
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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