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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo · Aalon Cruz vs Spike Carlyle
From the tape · 29 Feb 2020

Aalon Cruz vs Spike Carlyle

UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo · Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Result

Spike Carlyle beat Aalon Cruz

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
1:25
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Scott Howard

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.

AC
Red corner AalonCruzTeam Darkside MMA · Tampa, Florida
VSOn the tape
SC
Blue corner SpikeCarlyle“Alpha Ginger”Kings MMA · San Diego, California
Featherweight3 rounds29 Feb 2020
The story going in
  • Lands 5.0 more significant strikes a minute than Carlyle.
  • Carries 57 points more takedown defence than Cruz.
8-4
Record
9-3
30
Age
−4 yr26
+4″6' 0"
Height
5' 8"
+7″78″
Reach
71″
Switch
Stance
Switch
Team Darkside MMA
Gym
Kings MMA
Tampa, Florida
From
San Diego, California
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 11:25 of actionEnded 1:25
Aalon Cruz2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 of 4LEGS0%0 of 4
Spike Carlyle20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
2 of 12
Sig.
strikes
20 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:07
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 14

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Spike Carlyle

Round
1
Clock
1:25
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Scott Howard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Spike Carlyle

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

3.34takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.34 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.20 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS84
3.34 / 15m+1.20 vs field
ATTEMPTS88
9.28 / 15m+4.02 vs field
ACCURACY42
36%−8pp vs field
SUB ATT36
0.50 / 15m−0.80 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Aalon Cruz↑ +11.6pp
open 53.1%close 64.7%
Spike Carlyle↓ −11.6pp
open 46.9%close 35.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aalon Cruz opened at 53.1% and closed at 64.7% (+11.6pp), with Spike Carlyle 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
Aalon Cruz-130-20353.1%64.7%+11.6pp
Spike Carlyle10017346.9%35.3%−11.6pp
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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