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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson · Roosevelt Roberts vs Thomas Gifford
From the tape · 27 Apr 2019

Roosevelt Roberts vs Thomas Gifford

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

Roosevelt Roberts beat Thomas Gifford

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

RR
Red corner RooseveltRoberts“The Predator”Kill Cliff FC · Lathrop, California
VSOn the tape
TG
Blue corner ThomasGifford“The Young Lion”Sheridan Boxing Club · Brush Creek, Arkansas
Lightweight3 rounds27 Apr 2019
The story going in
  • Carries 15 points more striking defence than Gifford.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Roberts.
12-6
Record
14-9
−1 yr25
Age
26
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
73″
Reach
+2″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Sheridan Boxing Club
Lathrop, California
From
Brush Creek, Arkansas
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
Roosevelt Roberts19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 25BODY21%4 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
Thomas Gifford10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 19BODY10%1 of 1LEGS30%3 of 3
19 of 31
Sig.
strikes
10 of 23
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:42
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Roberts firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Roosevelt Roberts20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS10%2 of 2
Thomas Gifford13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 24BODY15%2 of 3LEGS38%5 of 6
20 of 31
Sig.
strikes
13 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:10
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Roberts firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Roosevelt Roberts14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 19BODY21%3 of 3LEGS7%1 of 1
Thomas Gifford7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 10BODY29%2 of 3LEGS14%1 of 1
14 of 23
Sig.
strikes
7 of 14
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:19
Control
1:41
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Roberts firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Roosevelt RobertsThomas Gifford
Official totals — Roosevelt Roberts first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 15 scored, Roosevelt Roberts first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Keith Shillan FanSided.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Adam Martin Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Roberts · 94%30-24 Roberts · 6%

18 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.

Roosevelt Roberts

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
4.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.52 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
33%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Thomas Gifford

0.50takedowns / 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.

Roosevelt Roberts↑ +13.0pp
open 66.1%close 79.2%
Thomas Gifford↓ −13.0pp
open 33.9%close 20.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Roosevelt Roberts opened at 66.1% and closed at 79.2% (+13.0pp), with Thomas Gifford 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
Roosevelt Roberts-245-46566.1%79.2%+13.0pp
Thomas Gifford17536233.9%20.8%−13.0pp
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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