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Events · UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor · Sergio Pettis vs Jussier Formiga
From the tape · 6 Oct 2018

Sergio Pettis vs Jussier Formiga

UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jussier Formiga beat Sergio Pettis

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

SP
Red corner SergioPettisRoufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
JF
Blue corner JussierFormigaAmerican Top Team · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Flyweight3 rounds6 Oct 2018
The story going in
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Formiga.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
18-5
Record
23-8
−8 yr25
Age
33
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
+2″69″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
11
0/80% of wins
Finishes
+43%3/743% of wins
Roufusport
Gym
American Top Team
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
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
Sergio Pettis17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 42BODY18%3 of 4LEGS24%4 of 5
Jussier Formiga10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
17 of 51
Sig.
strikes
10 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:26
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sergio Pettis9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 34BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Jussier Formiga6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
9 of 36
Sig.
strikes
6 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:48
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sergio Pettis4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jussier Formiga2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
4:11
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary8–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Sergio PettisJussier Formiga
Official totals — Sergio Pettis first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide26–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29

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 — 18 scored, Sergio Pettis first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com26–30
Idonaldo Filho MMABrasil.com.br26–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Phil Murphy ESPN27–30
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Formiga · 50%30-26 Formiga · 19%29-28 Formiga · 15%29-27 Formiga · 8%

26 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.

Sergio Pettis

0.85takedowns / 15 min
0.85 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.82 / 15m
2.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.20 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
35%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Jussier Formiga

1.82takedowns / 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.

Sergio Pettis↑ +1.8pp
open 61.4%close 63.2%
Jussier Formiga↓ −1.8pp
open 38.6%close 36.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sergio Pettis opened at 61.4% and closed at 63.2% (+1.8pp), with Jussier Formiga 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
Sergio Pettis-185-18961.4%63.2%+1.8pp
Jussier Formiga14516338.6%36.8%−1.8pp
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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