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History · 2018 · UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor · Tony Ferguson vs Anthony Pettis
From the tape · 6 Oct 2018

Tony Ferguson vs Anthony Pettis

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

Tony Ferguson beat Anthony Pettis

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

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Red corner TonyFerguson“El Cucuy”Knuckleheadz MMA · Oxnard, California
VSOn the tape
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Blue corner AnthonyPettis“Showtime”Roufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lightweight3 rounds6 Oct 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 10-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
26-11
Record
24-10
34
Age
−3 yr31
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
14
UFC bouts
14
9/1369% of wins
Finishes
+6%6/875% of wins
Knuckleheadz MMA
Gym
Roufusport
Oxnard, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Tony Ferguson49 sig landed
HEAD43%21 of 52BODY16%8 of 13LEGS41%20 of 20
Anthony Pettis18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 35BODY33%6 of 8LEGS22%4 of 6
49 of 85
Sig.
strikes
18 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 49Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD PettisEnded 5:00
Tony Ferguson65 sig landed
HEAD69%45 of 79BODY20%13 of 19LEGS11%7 of 11
Anthony Pettis27 sig landed
HEAD89%24 of 45BODY11%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
65 of 109
Sig.
strikes
27 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
1:11
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 57Clinch 4Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 5

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

Tony Ferguson

Round
2
Clock
5:00
Method
KO/TKO

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: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Tony Ferguson

0.39takedowns / 15 min
0.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.61 / 15m
1.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.22 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
50%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Anthony Pettis

0.61takedowns / 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

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.

Tony Ferguson↑ +8.0pp
open 67.4%close 75.4%
Anthony Pettis↓ −8.0pp
open 32.6%close 24.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tony Ferguson opened at 67.4% and closed at 75.4% (+8.0pp), with Anthony 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
Tony Ferguson-265-36867.4%75.4%+8.0pp
Anthony Pettis18529032.6%24.6%−8.0pp
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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