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History · 2020 · UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno · Tony Ferguson vs Charles Oliveira
From the tape · 12 Dec 2020

Tony Ferguson vs Charles Oliveira

UFC 256: Figueiredo vs. Moreno · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Charles Oliveira beat Tony Ferguson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Mark Smith

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.

TF
Red corner TonyFerguson“El Cucuy”Knuckleheadz MMA · Oxnard, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CharlesOliveira“Do Bronxs”Guaruja, Sao Paulo
Lightweight3 rounds12 Dec 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.7 more significant strikes a minute than Oliveira.
  • Has finished 16 of 17 UFC wins.
26-11
Record
37-11
36
Age
−5 yr31
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
17
UFC bouts
+926
11/1573% of wins
Finishes
+21%16/1794% of wins
Oxnard, California
From
Guaruja, Sao Paulo
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 action2 sub attempts
Tony Ferguson11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 21BODY18%2 of 5LEGS18%2 of 3
Charles Oliveira16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 22BODY6%1 of 3LEGS19%3 of 3
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
16 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:35
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstMichael Bell8–10Eric Colón8–10Ron McCarthy8–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tony Ferguson6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 5BODY17%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Charles Oliveira12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 9BODY25%3 of 4LEGS25%3 of 3
6 of 7
Sig.
strikes
12 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Tony Ferguson2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 3BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Charles Oliveira13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 12BODY23%3 of 4LEGS15%2 of 3
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
13 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:05
Control
3:59
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 9
Judges · this round · Ferguson firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Tony FergusonCharles Oliveira
Official totals — Tony Ferguson first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell26–30
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide26–30
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 25 scored, Tony Ferguson first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com24–30
Adam Martin BJPenn.com24–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com24–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com25–30
MM AMania.com25–30
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com25–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com25–30
Phil Murphy ESPN25–30
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl25–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com25–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com26–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com26–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com26–30
MM AJunkie.com26–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com26–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com26–30
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press26–30
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com26–30
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com26–30
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com26–30
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com26–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport26–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Oliveira · 38%30-25 Oliveira · 28%30-24 Oliveira · 16%30-23 Oliveira · 6%30-27 Oliveira · 6%

383 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.

Tony Ferguson

0.39takedowns / 15 min
0.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.29 / 15m
1.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.87 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
39%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.60 / 15m

Charles Oliveira

2.29takedowns / 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.

Tony Ferguson↑ +6.5pp
open 54.3%close 60.8%
Charles Oliveira↓ −6.5pp
open 45.7%close 39.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tony Ferguson opened at 54.3% and closed at 60.8% (+6.5pp), with Charles Oliveira 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
Tony Ferguson-130-17354.3%60.8%+6.5pp
Charles Oliveira11014545.7%39.2%−6.5pp
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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