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Events · UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa · Juan Espino vs Jeff Hughes
From the tape · 26 Sep 2020

Juan Espino vs Jeff Hughes

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

Juan Espino beat Jeff Hughes

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
3:48
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Sataki

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.

JE
Red corner JuanEspino“El Guapo”Las Palmas, Canary Islands
VSOn the tape
JH
Blue corner JeffHughes“Lights Out”Strong Style Fight Team · Canton, Ohio
Heavyweight3 rounds26 Sep 2020
The story going in
  • Averages 8.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Hughes.
  • Carries 20 points more striking defence than Espino.
11-2
Record
10-4
39
Age
−7 yr32
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+3″80″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+23
Las Palmas, Canary Islands
From
Canton, Ohio
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

1 round of tape

Round 13:48 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:48
Juan Espino10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 14BODY10%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 2
Jeff Hughes0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

10 of 17
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
5 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:36
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0

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

Juan Espino

Round
1
Clock
3:48
Method
Submission

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: Kevin Sataki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Juan Espino

8.93takedowns / 15 min
8.93 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
11.45 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.42 / 15m
78%
ACCURACY
50%
2.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jeff Hughes

0.71takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Juan Espino↑ +7.7pp
open 66.2%close 73.9%
Jeff Hughes↓ −7.7pp
open 33.8%close 26.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Juan Espino opened at 66.2% and closed at 73.9% (+7.7pp), with Jeff Hughes 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
Juan Espino-220-33966.2%73.9%+7.7pp
Jeff Hughes18526733.8%26.1%−7.7pp
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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