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Events · UFC Fight Night: Benavidez vs. Figueiredo · Luis Pena vs Steve Garcia
From the tape · 29 Feb 2020

Luis Pena vs Steve Garcia

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

Luis Pena beat Steve Garcia

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mike King

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.

LP
Red corner LuisPena“Violent Bob Ross”Little Rock, Arkansas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SteveGarcia“Mean Machine”Jackson-Wink MMA · Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Lightweight3 rounds29 Feb 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 40 points more takedown defence than Pena.
9-3
Record
19-6
−1 yr26
Age
27
+3″6' 3"
Height
6' 0"
75″
Reach
75″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
Little Rock, Arkansas
From
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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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
Luis Pena21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS10%2 of 2
Steve Garcia15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 20BODY7%1 of 2LEGS27%4 of 4
21 of 33
Sig.
strikes
15 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
4:10
Control
0:13
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Pena firstBrian Costello10–9Lisa Cuellar10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Luis Pena6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 5BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Steve Garcia4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 6
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:54
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Pena firstBrian Costello10–9Lisa Cuellar10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Luis Pena0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

Steve Garcia2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 5BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 3
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:57
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pena firstBrian Costello10–9Lisa Cuellar10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Mike King
Luis PenaSteve Garcia
Official totals — Luis Pena first
JudgeTotal
Brian Costello30–27
Lisa Cuellar30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 13 scored, Luis Pena first · unofficial

MM AMania.com30–25
MM ABrasil.com.br30–26
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pena · 44%30-26 Pena · 44%30-25 Pena · 11%

18 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.

Luis Pena

1.17takedowns / 15 min
1.17 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.86 / 15m
3.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.15 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
40%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Steve Garcia

0.86takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Luis Pena vs Steve Garcia.

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