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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: De Randamie vs. Ladd · Julianna Pena vs Nicco Montano
From the tape · 13 Jul 2019

Julianna Pena vs Nicco Montano

UFC Fight Night: De Randamie vs. Ladd · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Julianna Pena beat Nicco Montano

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

JP
Red corner JuliannaPena“The Venezuelan Vixen”SikJitsu · Spokane, Washington
VSOn the tape
NM
Blue corner NiccoMontanoFit NHB · Lukachukai, Arizona
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds13 Jul 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 45 points more takedown defence than Pena.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Montano.
13-6
Record
5-3
−1 yr29
Age
30
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
+4″69″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+45
UFC bouts
1
2/450% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
SikJitsu
Gym
Fit NHB
Spokane, Washington
From
Lukachukai, Arizona
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
Julianna Pena9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 13BODY56%5 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
Nicco Montano11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 16BODY9%1 of 1LEGS45%5 of 8
9 of 19
Sig.
strikes
11 of 25
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
4:07
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Pena firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Julianna Pena16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 22BODY12%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 2
Nicco Montano13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 11BODY15%2 of 2LEGS62%8 of 9
16 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 22
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:17
Control
1:23
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 2
Judges · this round · Pena firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–8
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Julianna Pena20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 38BODY25%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Nicco Montano14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 23BODY50%7 of 7LEGS14%2 of 2
20 of 44
Sig.
strikes
14 of 32
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:19
Control
0:41
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pena firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Josh Rosenthal
Julianna PenaNicco Montano
Official totals — Julianna Pena first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–27

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 — 17 scored, Julianna Pena first · unofficial

Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily29–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Greg Rosenstein ESPN.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pena · 77%29-28 Montaño · 16%29-27 Pena · 6%

31 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.

Julianna Pena

1.70takedowns / 15 min
1.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.25 / 15m
3.15 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.17 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
54%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Nicco Montano

2.25takedowns / 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 Women's Bantamweight

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.

Julianna Pena↑ +10.0pp
open 56.7%close 66.6%
Nicco Montano↓ −10.0pp
open 43.3%close 33.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Julianna Pena opened at 56.7% and closed at 66.6% (+10.0pp), with Nicco Montano 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
Julianna Pena-155-22356.7%66.6%+10.0pp
Nicco Montano11518943.3%33.4%−10.0pp
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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