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Events · UFC Fight Night: Chiesa vs. Magny · Roxanne Modafferi vs Viviane Araujo
From the tape · 20 Jan 2021

Roxanne Modafferi vs Viviane Araujo

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

Viviane Araujo beat Roxanne Modafferi

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

RM
Red corner RoxanneModafferi“The Happy Warrior”Syndicate MMA · Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
VA
Blue corner VivianeAraujo“Vivi”Ceilandia, Federal District
Women's Flyweight3 rounds20 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Araujo.
  • Carries 45 points more takedown defence than Modafferi.
25-21
Record
13-7
38
Age
−4 yr34
+3″5' 7"
Height
5' 4"
+1″69″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+59
UFC bouts
4
1/425% of wins
Finishes
+8%1/333% of wins
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Ceilandia, Federal District
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
Roxanne Modafferi12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 59BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
Viviane Araujo34 sig landed
HEAD88%30 of 69BODY9%3 of 6LEGS3%1 of 2
12 of 61
Sig.
strikes
34 of 77
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:17
Control
0:27
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Modafferi firstSal D'Amato9–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner8–10
Round 25:00 of action
Roxanne Modafferi21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 68BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%3 of 3
Viviane Araujo32 sig landed
HEAD94%30 of 71BODY3%1 of 1LEGS3%1 of 1
21 of 71
Sig.
strikes
32 of 73
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:54
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Modafferi firstSal D'Amato9–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Roxanne Modafferi13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 50BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Viviane Araujo20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 47BODY5%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 52
Sig.
strikes
20 of 48
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:22
Control
1:45
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Modafferi firstSal D'Amato9–10David 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 · Keith Peterson
Roxanne ModafferiViviane Araujo
Official totals — Roxanne Modafferi first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
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 — 18 scored, Roxanne Modafferi first · unofficial

MM AMania.com26–30
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com26–30
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges26–30
Combat Press.com26–30
John Brannigan Sherdog.com26–30
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com26–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com26–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com26–30
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com27–30
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com27–30
Adam Martin BJPenn.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Araujo · 61%30-26 Araujo · 26%29-27 Araujo · 3%29-28 Araujo · 3%30-27 Modafferi · 3%

31 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.

Roxanne Modafferi

1.35takedowns / 15 min
1.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.72 / 15m
5.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
43%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Viviane Araujo

1.72takedowns / 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 (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

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.

Roxanne Modafferi↓ −6.3pp
open 33.2%close 26.9%
Viviane Araujo↑ +6.3pp
open 66.8%close 73.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Roxanne Modafferi opened at 33.2% and closed at 26.9% (−6.3pp), with Viviane Araujo 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
Roxanne Modafferi19025533.2%26.9%−6.3pp
Viviane Araujo-225-32466.8%73.1%+6.3pp
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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