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History · 2020 · UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa · Diego Sanchez vs Jake Matthews
From the tape · 26 Sep 2020

Diego Sanchez vs Jake Matthews

UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Jake Matthews beat Diego Sanchez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

DS
Red corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JakeMatthews“The Celtic Kid”Nexus · Epping, Victoria
Welterweight3 rounds26 Sep 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 19 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 31 UFC bouts deep — 18 more than Matthews.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
31-13
Record
23-8
38
Age
−12 yr26
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1831
UFC bouts
13
6/1932% of wins
Finishes
+24%5/956% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Nexus
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Epping, Victoria
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
Diego Sanchez11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 20BODY36%4 of 10LEGS27%3 of 5
Jake Matthews22 sig landed
HEAD86%19 of 43BODY14%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 35
Sig.
strikes
22 of 46
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstAnders Ohlsson9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Diego Sanchez12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 32BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%6 of 7
Jake Matthews23 sig landed
HEAD100%23 of 53BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
12 of 40
Sig.
strikes
23 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstAnders Ohlsson9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD MatthewsEnded 5:00
Diego Sanchez2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jake Matthews27 sig landed
HEAD100%27 of 49BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
27 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
4:23
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 24
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstAnders Ohlsson8–10Dave Tirelli8–10Clemens Werner8–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Diego SanchezJake Matthews
Official totals — Diego Sanchez first
JudgeTotal
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide26–30
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide26–30
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide26–30

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 — 19 scored, Diego Sanchez first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com26–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com26–30
MM AMania.com26–30
MM AJunkie.com26–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com26–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com26–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com26–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport26–30
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com26–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com26–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com26–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com26–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling26–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com26–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Matthews · 81%30-27 Matthews · 8%30-25 Matthews · 6%30-24 Matthews · 3%

36 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.

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
6.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.51 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
41%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Jake Matthews

1.44takedowns / 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.

Diego Sanchez↓ −6.0pp
open 21.4%close 15.3%
Jake Matthews↑ +6.0pp
open 78.6%close 84.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Sanchez opened at 21.4% and closed at 15.3% (−6.0pp), with Jake Matthews 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
Diego Sanchez35052421.4%15.3%−6.0pp
Jake Matthews-450-76178.6%84.7%+6.0pp
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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