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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren · Raphael Pessoa vs Jeff Hughes
From the tape · 26 Oct 2019

Raphael Pessoa vs Jeff Hughes

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Askren · Kallang, Singapore
Result

Raphael Pessoa beat Jeff Hughes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Thomas Fan

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.

RP
Red corner RaphaelPessoa“Bebezao”HWB _ Heavyweight Brothers MMA · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
JH
Blue corner JeffHughes“Lights Out”Strong Style Fight Team · Canton, Ohio
Heavyweight3 rounds26 Oct 2019
The story going in
  • Carries 55 points more takedown defence than Hughes.
  • Is 25 points more accurate striking than Pessoa.
10-2
Record
10-4
−1 yr30
Age
31
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+1″78″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
HWB _ Heavyweight Brothers MMA
Gym
Strong Style Fight Team
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
From
Canton, 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
Raphael Pessoa14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 44BODY0%0 of 3LEGS50%7 of 9
Jeff Hughes11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 17BODY9%1 of 2LEGS55%6 of 8
14 of 56
Sig.
strikes
11 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pessoa firstEvan Field10–9Howard Hughes10–9Takeo Kobayashi10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Pessoa
Raphael Pessoa17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 43BODY12%2 of 2LEGS18%3 of 4
Jeff Hughes9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 18BODY22%2 of 3LEGS44%4 of 5
17 of 49
Sig.
strikes
9 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
1:16
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Pessoa firstEvan Field10–9Howard Hughes10–9Takeo Kobayashi10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Raphael Pessoa8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 25BODY12%1 of 3LEGS50%4 of 5
Jeff Hughes14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 11BODY21%3 of 4LEGS57%8 of 9
8 of 33
Sig.
strikes
14 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pessoa firstEvan Field10–9Howard Hughes10–9Takeo Kobayashi10–9

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 · Thomas Fan
Raphael PessoaJeff Hughes
Official totals — Raphael Pessoa first
JudgeTotal
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide30–27
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Takeo Kobayashi30–27

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 — 7 scored, Raphael Pessoa first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com30–27
John Brannigan Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pessoa · 100%

14 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.

Raphael Pessoa

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
1.42 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jeff Hughes

0.71takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Raphael Pessoa↓ −9.9pp
open 41.7%close 31.8%
Jeff Hughes↑ +9.9pp
open 58.3%close 68.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Raphael Pessoa opened at 41.7% and closed at 31.8% (−9.9pp), with Jeff Hughes 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
Raphael Pessoa12520241.7%31.8%−9.9pp
Jeff Hughes-165-24558.3%68.2%+9.9pp
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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