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History · 2020 · UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje · Jeremy Stephens vs Calvin Kattar
From the tape · 9 May 2020

Jeremy Stephens vs Calvin Kattar

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

Calvin Kattar beat Jeremy Stephens

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
2:49
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · 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 JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
VSOn the tape
CK
Blue corner CalvinKattarMethuen, Massachusetts
Featherweight3 rounds9 May 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 32 UFC bouts deep — 26 more than Kattar.
  • Carries 16 points more takedown defence than Stephens.
29-23
Record
23-10
33
Age
−1 yr32
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2632
UFC bouts
6
8/1553% of wins
Finishes
+22%3/475% of wins
Des Moines, Iowa
From
Methuen, Massachusetts
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jeremy Stephens40 sig landed
HEAD40%16 of 36BODY18%7 of 10LEGS42%17 of 18
Calvin Kattar26 sig landed
HEAD58%15 of 54BODY27%7 of 8LEGS15%4 of 4
40 of 64
Sig.
strikes
26 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 40Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 22:49 of action⚡ 1 KD KattarEnded 2:49
Jeremy Stephens17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 30BODY12%2 of 2LEGS41%7 of 8
Calvin Kattar26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 38BODY19%5 of 5LEGS15%4 of 4
17 of 40
Sig.
strikes
26 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 4

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

Calvin Kattar

Round
2
Clock
2:49
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: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 15 min
1.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
2.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.17 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
29%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Calvin Kattar

0.34takedowns / 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

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.

Jeremy Stephens→ no move
open 31.7%close 32.1%
Calvin Kattar→ no move
open 68.3%close 67.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Jeremy Stephens opened at 31.7% and closed at 32.1% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp 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
Jeremy Stephens20520031.7%32.1%+0.4pp
Calvin Kattar-240-23968.3%67.9%−0.4pp
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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