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Events · UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson · Carla Esparza vs Virna Jandiroba
From the tape · 27 Apr 2019

Carla Esparza vs Virna Jandiroba

UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson · Sunrise, Florida, USA
Result

Carla Esparza beat Virna Jandiroba

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Alan Abeles

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.

Red corner CarlaEsparza“Cookie Monster”Team Oyama · Redondo Beach, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner VirnaJandiroba“Carcara”Serrinha, Bahia
Women's Strawweight3 rounds27 Apr 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 25 points more takedown defence than Esparza.
20-8
Record
23-4
31
Age
−1 yr30
5' 1"
Height
+2″5' 3"
63″
Reach
+1″64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Redondo Beach, California
From
Serrinha, Bahia
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
Carla Esparza8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 8BODY50%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Virna Jandiroba7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 6BODY57%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 12
Sig.
strikes
7 of 10
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 4
2:37
Control
0:43
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Esparza firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Carla Esparza9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 17BODY11%1 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
Virna Jandiroba7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
7 of 15
1 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:43
Control
1:42
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Esparza firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Carla Esparza8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 18BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Virna Jandiroba3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
3 of 12
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:05
Control
1:23
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Esparza firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9

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 · Alan Abeles
Carla EsparzaVirna Jandiroba
Official totals — Carla Esparza first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Barry Luxenberg30–27

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 — 14 scored, Carla Esparza first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Keith Shillan FanSided.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Adam Martin Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Esparza · 59%30-27 Esparza · 28%29-28 Jandiroba · 14%

29 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.

Carla Esparza

3.28takedowns / 15 min
3.28 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.13 / 15m
9.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.03 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
39%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Virna Jandiroba

3.13takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Carla Esparza↓ −4.4pp
open 57.1%close 52.7%
Virna Jandiroba↑ +4.4pp
open 42.9%close 47.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Carla Esparza opened at 57.1% and closed at 52.7% (−4.4pp), with Virna Jandiroba 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
Carla Esparza-145-12357.1%52.7%−4.4pp
Virna Jandiroba12510242.9%47.3%+4.4pp
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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