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Events · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland · John Makdessi vs Ignacio Bahamondes
From the tape · 10 Apr 2021

John Makdessi vs Ignacio Bahamondes

UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Holland · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

John Makdessi beat Ignacio Bahamondes

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

JM
Red corner JohnMakdessi“The Bull”Tristar Gym · Halifax, Nova Scotia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IgnacioBahamondes“La Jaula”Valle Flow Striking · Santiago, Metropolitan Region
Lightweight3 rounds10 Apr 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Carries 13 points more striking defence than Bahamondes.
18-9
Record
17-7
35
Age
−12 yr23
5' 8"
Height
+7″6' 3"
68″
Reach
+7″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Tristar Gym
Gym
Valle Flow Striking
Halifax, Nova Scotia
From
Santiago, Metropolitan Region
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
John Makdessi36 sig landed
HEAD67%24 of 51BODY19%7 of 10LEGS14%5 of 6
Ignacio Bahamondes37 sig landed
HEAD59%22 of 66BODY24%9 of 10LEGS16%6 of 9
36 of 67
Sig.
strikes
37 of 85
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:13
Control
0:36
Distance 24Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
John Makdessi43 sig landed
HEAD56%24 of 56BODY33%14 of 20LEGS12%5 of 7
Ignacio Bahamondes35 sig landed
HEAD74%26 of 96BODY11%4 of 5LEGS14%5 of 6
43 of 83
Sig.
strikes
35 of 107
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:28
Distance 43Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Makdessi45 sig landed
HEAD53%24 of 58BODY27%12 of 15LEGS20%9 of 9
Ignacio Bahamondes40 sig landed
HEAD68%27 of 106BODY22%9 of 10LEGS10%4 of 4
45 of 82
Sig.
strikes
40 of 120
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:10
Distance 42Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makdessi firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
John MakdessiIgnacio Bahamondes
Official totals — John Makdessi first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27

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 — 15 scored, John Makdessi first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–26
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com30–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Makdessi · 40%29-28 Makdessi · 37%29-28 Bahamondes · 14%30-28 Makdessi · 3%30-26 Makdessi · 3%

70 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.

John Makdessi

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
n/a
n/a
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Ignacio Bahamondes

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 (5.22 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.

John Makdessi↓ −11.8pp
open 47.8%close 36.0%
Ignacio Bahamondes↑ +11.8pp
open 52.2%close 64.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Makdessi opened at 47.8% and closed at 36.0% (−11.8pp), with Ignacio Bahamondes 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
John Makdessi10016647.8%36.0%−11.8pp
Ignacio Bahamondes-120-20252.2%64.0%+11.8pp
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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