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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum · Luis Pena vs Alexander Munoz
From the tape · 17 Apr 2021

Luis Pena vs Alexander Munoz

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Luis Pena beat Alexander Munoz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

LP
Red corner LuisPena“Violent Bob Ross”Little Rock, Arkansas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexanderMunoz
Lightweight3 rounds17 Apr 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 52 points more takedown defence than Pena.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Munoz.
9-3
Record
7-2
−4 yr27
Age
31
+6″6' 3"
Height
5' 9"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Switch
+67
UFC bouts
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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
Luis Pena21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 35BODY19%4 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
Alexander Munoz18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 31BODY17%3 of 9LEGS28%5 of 5
21 of 43
Sig.
strikes
18 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
1:30
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pena firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Luis Pena22 sig landed
HEAD91%20 of 56BODY5%1 of 1LEGS5%1 of 2
Alexander Munoz29 sig landed
HEAD52%15 of 33BODY21%6 of 7LEGS28%8 of 8
22 of 59
Sig.
strikes
29 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:32
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pena firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Luis Pena47 sig landed
HEAD81%38 of 80BODY15%7 of 11LEGS4%2 of 2
Alexander Munoz33 sig landed
HEAD45%15 of 46BODY33%11 of 22LEGS21%7 of 8
47 of 93
Sig.
strikes
33 of 76
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:03
Control
0:19
Distance 47Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pena firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Rick Winter10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Luis PenaAlexander Munoz
Official totals — Luis Pena first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% 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 — 16 scored, Luis Pena first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com28–29
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com28–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Munoz · 68%29-28 Pena · 27%30-28 Munoz · 2%30-28 Pena · 2%30-27 Munoz · 1%

120 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.

Luis Pena

1.17takedowns / 15 min
1.17 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.00 / 15m
3.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.50 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
40%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Alexander Munoz

3.00takedowns / 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

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.

Luis Pena vs Alexander Munoz.

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