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History · 2020 · UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy · Holly Holm vs Raquel Pennington
From the tape · 18 Jan 2020

Holly Holm vs Raquel Pennington

UFC 246: McGregor vs. Cowboy · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Holly Holm beat Raquel Pennington

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightCo-MainReferee · Jason Herzog

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 HollyHolm“The Preacher's Daughter”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RaquelPennington“Rocky”Altitude MMA · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds18 Jan 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 14 points more takedown defence than Pennington.
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Holm.
15-7
Record
16-10
38
Age
−7 yr31
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+2″69″
Reach
67″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+111
+11%2/540% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Altitude MMA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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
Holly Holm6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 5BODY33%2 of 3LEGS33%2 of 4
Raquel Pennington5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 8BODY60%3 of 3LEGS20%1 of 3
6 of 12
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:48
Control
0:17
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holm firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Holly Holm9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 8BODY56%5 of 7LEGS22%2 of 2
Raquel Pennington19 sig landed
HEAD16%3 of 10BODY79%15 of 16LEGS5%1 of 1
9 of 17
Sig.
strikes
19 of 27
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:07
Control
0:19
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 17Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holm firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Holly Holm15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 20BODY13%2 of 8LEGS33%5 of 5
Raquel Pennington14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 25BODY64%9 of 11LEGS0%0 of 1
15 of 33
Sig.
strikes
14 of 37
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:21
Control
0:26
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holm firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Ron 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 · Jason Herzog
Holly HolmRaquel Pennington
Official totals — Holly Holm first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 14 scored, Holly Holm first · unofficial

Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Holm · 49%29-28 Holm · 36%29-28 Pennington · 13%

45 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.

Holly Holm

0.87takedowns / 15 min
0.87 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.83 / 15m
2.90 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.07 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
27%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Raquel Pennington

0.83takedowns / 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.

Holly Holm↓ −12.9pp
open 71.0%close 58.2%
Raquel Pennington↑ +12.9pp
open 29.0%close 41.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Holly Holm opened at 71.0% and closed at 58.2% (−12.9pp), with Raquel Pennington 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
Holly Holm-290-15371.0%58.2%−12.9pp
Raquel Pennington23013029.0%41.8%+12.9pp
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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