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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum · Tracy Cortez vs Justine Kish
From the tape · 17 Apr 2021

Tracy Cortez vs Justine Kish

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

Tracy Cortez beat Justine Kish

Method
Decision - Split
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.

Red corner TracyCortezFight Ready · Phoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
JK
Blue corner JustineKishBlack House · Cramerton, North Carolina
Women's Flyweight3 rounds17 Apr 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Cortez.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kish.
12-4
Record
7-4
−6 yr27
Age
33
5' 5"
Height
5' 5"
+1″65″
Reach
64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+46
0/20% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Fight Ready
Gym
Black House
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Cramerton, North Carolina
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
Tracy Cortez20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 28BODY10%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Justine Kish5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%2 of 2
20 of 30
Sig.
strikes
5 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:11
Control
0:21
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cortez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tracy Cortez22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 26BODY36%8 of 10LEGS23%5 of 8
Justine Kish29 sig landed
HEAD52%15 of 38BODY14%4 of 8LEGS34%10 of 11
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
29 of 57
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:53
Control
0:09
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cortez firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Kish1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Tracy Cortez24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 24BODY38%9 of 12LEGS8%2 of 2
Justine Kish21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 42BODY19%4 of 6LEGS24%5 of 6
24 of 38
Sig.
strikes
21 of 54
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:22
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
1
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Cortez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Rick 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 · Keith Peterson
Tracy CortezJustine Kish
Official totals — Tracy Cortez first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% 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 — 13 scored, Tracy Cortez first · unofficial

Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
MM AMania.com28–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cortez · 43%29-28 Kish · 35%30-27 Cortez · 15%29-27 Cortez · 3%

98 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.

Tracy Cortez

2.15takedowns / 15 min
2.15 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.87 / 15m
4.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.64 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
33%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Justine Kish

0.87takedowns / 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.

Tracy Cortez↑ +4.4pp
open 67.8%close 72.2%
Justine Kish↓ −4.4pp
open 32.2%close 27.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tracy Cortez opened at 67.8% and closed at 72.2% (+4.4pp), with Justine Kish 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
Tracy Cortez-235-30967.8%72.2%+4.4pp
Justine Kish20024332.2%27.8%−4.4pp
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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