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Events · UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker · Jake Matthews vs Emil Meek
From the tape · 22 Feb 2020

Jake Matthews vs Emil Meek

UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker · Auckland, New Zealand
Result

Jake Matthews beat Emil Meek

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · John Sharp

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 JakeMatthews“The Celtic Kid”Nexus · Epping, Victoria
VSOn the tape
EM
Blue corner EmilMeek“Valhalla”Xtreme Couture · Trondheim
Welterweight3 rounds22 Feb 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Meek.
23-8
Record
9-5-1
−6 yr25
Age
31
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+912
UFC bouts
3
5/862% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Nexus
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Epping, Victoria
From
Trondheim
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⚡ 1 KD Matthews
Jake Matthews10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 18BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Emil Meek2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 4
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
2 of 14
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:57
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Matthews firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Mark Rodgers10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jake Matthews9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 11BODY11%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Emil Meek15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 26BODY13%2 of 3LEGS7%1 of 1
9 of 12
Sig.
strikes
15 of 30
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:54
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 8
Judges · this round · Matthews firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Mark Rodgers10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jake Matthews14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 41BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Emil Meek33 sig landed
HEAD67%22 of 59BODY24%8 of 9LEGS9%3 of 6
14 of 42
Sig.
strikes
33 of 74
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:37
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 17Ground 2
Judges · this round · Matthews firstHowie Booth9–10Barry Foley9–10Mark Rodgers9–10

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 · John Sharp
Jake MatthewsEmil Meek
Official totals — Jake Matthews first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide29–28
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide29–28
Mark Rodgers29–28

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 — 9 scored, Jake Matthews first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–27
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Matthews · 53%29-27 Matthews · 23%29-28 Meek · 10%30-27 Matthews · 3%

30 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.

Jake Matthews

1.44takedowns / 15 min
1.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.25 / 15m
3.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.76 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
33%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Emil Meek

0.25takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Jake Matthews→ no move
open 67.2%close 67.2%
Emil Meek→ no move
open 32.8%close 32.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Jake Matthews opened at 67.2% and closed at 67.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.0pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Jake Matthews-240-23167.2%67.2%−0.0pp
Emil Meek19019332.8%32.8%+0.0pp
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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