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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny · Francisco Figueiredo vs Jerome Rivera
From the tape · 20 Jan 2021

Francisco Figueiredo vs Jerome Rivera

UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Francisco Figueiredo beat Jerome Rivera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

FF
Red corner FranciscoFigueiredo“Sniper”Team Figueiredo · Soure, Para
VSOn the tape
JR
Blue corner JeromeRivera“Renegade”Santa Fe, New Mexico
Flyweight3 rounds20 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • Is 28 points more accurate striking than Rivera.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Figueiredo.
13-5-1
Record
10-6
31
Age
−6 yr25
5' 6"
Height
+4″5' 10"
68″
Reach
+4″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
Soure, Para
From
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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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
Francisco Figueiredo8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 7BODY38%3 of 6LEGS25%2 of 4
Jerome Rivera12 sig landed
HEAD8%1 of 16BODY42%5 of 9LEGS50%6 of 10
8 of 17
Sig.
strikes
12 of 35
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:21
Control
0:10
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Figueiredo firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Francisco Figueiredo13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 9BODY15%2 of 3LEGS46%6 of 6
Jerome Rivera5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 22BODY0%0 of 4LEGS40%2 of 7
13 of 18
Sig.
strikes
5 of 33
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:49
Control
0:12
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Figueiredo firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Francisco Figueiredo8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 12BODY25%2 of 2LEGS38%3 of 4
Jerome Rivera14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 52BODY21%3 of 7LEGS21%3 of 7
8 of 18
Sig.
strikes
14 of 66
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:57
Control
0:45
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Figueiredo firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Francisco FigueiredoJerome Rivera
Official totals — Francisco Figueiredo first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide29–28

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 — 20 scored, Francisco Figueiredo first · unofficial

Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
John Brannigan Sherdog.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Adam Martin BJPenn.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Figueiredo · 86%30-27 Figueiredo · 10%29-28 Rivera · 3%

29 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.

Francisco Figueiredo

2.51takedowns / 15 min
2.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
3.35 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
75%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jerome Rivera

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Francisco Figueiredo vs Jerome Rivera.

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