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History · 2020 · UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 · Jim Miller vs Vinc Pichel
From the tape · 15 Aug 2020

Jim Miller vs Vinc Pichel

UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Vinc Pichel beat Jim Miller

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 JimMiller“A-10”Sussex County MMA · Sparta, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
VP
Blue corner VincPichel“From Hell”Factory X · Simi Valley, California
Lightweight3 rounds15 Aug 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 13 of 21 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Miller.
  • 35 UFC bouts deep — 28 more than Pichel.
39-19
Record
14-5
−1 yr36
Age
37
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+2835
UFC bouts
7
+42%13/2162% of wins
Finishes
1/520% of wins
Sussex County MMA
Gym
Factory X
Sparta, New Jersey
From
Simi Valley, 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 — 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 action1 sub attempt
Jim Miller11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 21BODY36%4 of 5LEGS27%3 of 3
Vinc Pichel12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 17BODY33%4 of 4LEGS25%3 of 3
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
12 of 24
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:16
Control
0:14
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miller firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jim Miller2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Vinc Pichel12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 22BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
12 of 23
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:07
Control
3:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 10
Judges · this round · Miller firstEric Colón8–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Jim Miller1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Vinc Pichel17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 25BODY35%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 6
Sig.
strikes
17 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
1:47
Control
2:51
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 7Ground 7
Judges · this round · Miller firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Jim MillerVinc Pichel
Official totals — Jim Miller first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29

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 — 24 scored, Jim Miller first · unofficial

Scott Fontana Couchside Judges28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pichel · 90%29-28 Miller · 5%30-29 Pichel · 3%29-26 Pichel · 3%

38 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.

Jim Miller

1.49takedowns / 15 min
1.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.50 / 15m
3.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.90 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
51%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Vinc Pichel

2.50takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Jim Miller↓ −14.5pp
open 60.7%close 46.2%
Vinc Pichel↑ +14.5pp
open 39.3%close 53.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jim Miller opened at 60.7% and closed at 46.2% (−14.5pp), with Vinc Pichel 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
Jim Miller-18010660.7%46.2%−14.5pp
Vinc Pichel140-13039.3%53.8%+14.5pp
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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