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History · 2020 · UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje · Anthony Pettis vs Donald Cerrone
From the tape · 9 May 2020

Anthony Pettis vs Donald Cerrone

UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Anthony Pettis beat Donald Cerrone

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

AP
Red corner AnthonyPettis“Showtime”Roufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DonaldCerrone“Cowboy”BMF Ranch · Broomfield, Colorado
Welterweight3 rounds9 May 2020
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 16 of 23 UFC wins.
24-10
Record
36-17
−4 yr33
Age
37
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
18
UFC bouts
+1634
+8%7/978% of wins
Finishes
16/2370% of wins
Roufusport
Gym
BMF Ranch
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Broomfield, 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
Anthony Pettis15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 13BODY27%4 of 8LEGS27%4 of 6
Donald Cerrone17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 23BODY29%5 of 5LEGS12%2 of 3
15 of 27
Sig.
strikes
17 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstSal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli9–10Troy Wincapaw9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Pettis21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 28BODY19%4 of 6LEGS19%4 of 4
Donald Cerrone20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 38BODY25%5 of 7LEGS35%7 of 7
21 of 38
Sig.
strikes
20 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:38
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstSal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anthony Pettis27 sig landed
HEAD89%24 of 43BODY7%2 of 4LEGS4%1 of 1
Donald Cerrone25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 51BODY32%8 of 10LEGS16%4 of 4
27 of 48
Sig.
strikes
25 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
0:08
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstSal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Anthony PettisDonald Cerrone
Official totals — Anthony Pettis first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide29–28
Troy Wincapaw2.3 avg spread · 55% wide29–28

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 — 13 scored, Anthony Pettis first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cerrone · 50%29-28 Pettis · 29%30-27 Cerrone · 15%30-27 Pettis · 4%

397 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.

Anthony Pettis

0.61takedowns / 15 min
0.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.16 / 15m
1.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.52 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
33%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Donald Cerrone

1.16takedowns / 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.

Anthony Pettis↓ −0.6pp
open 56.9%close 56.3%
Donald Cerrone↑ +0.6pp
open 43.1%close 43.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Pettis opened at 56.9% and closed at 56.3% (−0.6pp), with Donald Cerrone 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
Anthony Pettis-150-14356.9%56.3%−0.6pp
Donald Cerrone12011943.1%43.7%+0.6pp
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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