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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Pettis · Eric Shelton vs Jordan Espinosa
From the tape · 23 Mar 2019

Eric Shelton vs Jordan Espinosa

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Pettis · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Jordan Espinosa beat Eric Shelton

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Jimmy Neely

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.

ES
Red corner EricShelton“Showtime”Take The Fight Academy · Lawton, Oklahoma
VSOn the tape
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Blue corner JordanEspinosa“The Gamer”Luttrell-Yee MMA · Findlay, Ohio
Flyweight3 rounds23 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Averages 2.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Espinosa.
  • Carries 24 points more takedown defence than Shelton.
12-6
Record
15-9
−1 yr28
Age
29
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
68″
Reach
+1″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Take The Fight Academy
Gym
Luttrell-Yee MMA
Lawton, Oklahoma
From
Findlay, Ohio
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
Eric Shelton6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
Jordan Espinosa15 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 12BODY33%5 of 8LEGS60%9 of 11
6 of 16
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:14
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Shelton firstDerek Cleary9–10Anthony Maness9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Eric Shelton8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 27BODY12%1 of 1LEGS25%2 of 2
Jordan Espinosa17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 24BODY12%2 of 3LEGS35%6 of 13
8 of 30
Sig.
strikes
17 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:04
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Shelton firstDerek Cleary9–10Anthony Maness9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Eric Shelton11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 29BODY0%0 of 1LEGS27%3 of 5
Jordan Espinosa15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 27BODY20%3 of 3LEGS20%3 of 4
11 of 35
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Shelton firstDerek Cleary10–9Anthony Maness9–10Brian Puccillo9–10

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 · Jimmy Neely
Eric SheltonJordan Espinosa
Official totals — Eric Shelton first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide27–30

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 — 14 scored, Eric Shelton first · unofficial

Mike Straus MMAJA27–30
Shawn Bitter MMA- Today.com28–29
Nolan King FloCombat28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Shelton · 56%29-28 Espinosa · 31%30-27 Shelton · 8%30-27 Espinosa · 5%

39 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.

Eric Shelton

2.83takedowns / 15 min
2.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
5.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.68 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
28%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Jordan Espinosa

0.75takedowns / 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.

Eric Shelton→ no move
open 55.8%close 55.3%
Jordan Espinosa→ no move
open 44.2%close 44.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Eric Shelton opened at 55.8% and closed at 55.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Eric Shelton-150-13555.8%55.3%−0.5pp
Jordan Espinosa11011544.2%44.7%+0.5pp
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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