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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Pettis · John Makdessi vs Jesus Pinedo
From the tape · 23 Mar 2019

John Makdessi vs Jesus Pinedo

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

John Makdessi beat Jesus Pinedo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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.

JM
Red corner JohnMakdessi“The Bull”Tristar Gym · Halifax, Nova Scotia
VSOn the tape
JP
Blue corner JesusPinedo“El Mudo”Pitbull Martial Arts Center · Lima, Lima
Lightweight3 rounds23 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Makdessi.
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
18-9
Record
16-5-1
33
Age
−11 yr22
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1415
UFC bouts
1
3/933% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Pitbull Martial Arts Center
Halifax, Nova Scotia
From
Lima, Lima
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
John Makdessi14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 10BODY14%2 of 6LEGS57%8 of 12
Jesus Pinedo7 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 13BODY29%2 of 3LEGS71%5 of 9
14 of 28
Sig.
strikes
7 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstAnthony Maness10–9Tony Weeks10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 25:00 of action
John Makdessi28 sig landed
HEAD29%8 of 19BODY18%5 of 8LEGS54%15 of 23
Jesus Pinedo13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 24BODY23%3 of 6LEGS23%3 of 7
28 of 50
Sig.
strikes
13 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstAnthony Maness9–10Tony Weeks10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Makdessi31 sig landed
HEAD42%13 of 31BODY3%1 of 7LEGS55%17 of 21
Jesus Pinedo17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 37BODY29%5 of 9LEGS6%1 of 5
31 of 59
Sig.
strikes
17 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstAnthony Maness10–9Tony Weeks10–9Rick Winter10–9

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 · Herb Dean
John MakdessiJesus Pinedo
Official totals — John Makdessi first
JudgeTotal
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

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 — 16 scored, John Makdessi first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Adam Martin Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Keith Shillan FanSided.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Makdessi · 75%29-28 Makdessi · 12%29-28 Pinedo · 6%

16 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.

John Makdessi

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.50 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
2.50 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
100%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jesus Pinedo

2.50takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

John Makdessi↑ +8.4pp
open 64.4%close 72.8%
Jesus Pinedo↓ −8.4pp
open 35.6%close 27.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Makdessi opened at 64.4% and closed at 72.8% (+8.4pp), with Jesus Pinedo 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
John Makdessi-215-30564.4%72.8%+8.4pp
Jesus Pinedo16525535.6%27.2%−8.4pp
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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