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History · 2021 · UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2 · Pat Sabatini vs Tristan Connelly
From the tape · 24 Apr 2021

Pat Sabatini vs Tristan Connelly

UFC 261: Usman vs. Masvidal 2 · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Pat Sabatini beat Tristan Connelly

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rutgers

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 PatSabatiniBristol, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
TC
Blue corner TristanConnelly“Boondock”Ryan's MMA - Checkmat Vancouver · Victoria, British Columbia
Featherweight3 rounds24 Apr 2021
The story going in
  • Averages 3.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Connelly.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Sabatini.
22-5
Record
14-8
−5 yr30
Age
35
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Bristol, Pennsylvania
From
Victoria, British Columbia
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⚡ 1 KD Sabatini
Pat Sabatini11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 13BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 2
Tristan Connelly3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%1 of 1
11 of 16
Sig.
strikes
3 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:05
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sabatini firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Pat Sabatini8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 13BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Tristan Connelly4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
8 of 15
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:18
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Sabatini firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Pat Sabatini7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 10BODY57%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Tristan Connelly12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 20BODY50%6 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
12 of 27
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:35
Control
1:20
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sabatini firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee10–9Troy Wincapaw9–10

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 · Josh Rutgers
Pat SabatiniTristan Connelly
Official totals — Pat Sabatini first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Troy Wincapaw2.3 avg spread · 55% 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 — 19 scored, Pat Sabatini first · unofficial

MM AMania.com30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–26
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–26
Nick Baldwin theScore29–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–27
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com29–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–27
Combat Press.com29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Ant Walker Sherdog.com29–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sabatini · 38%29-27 Sabatini · 35%29-26 Sabatini · 15%30-27 Sabatini · 5%29-28 Connelly · 5%

40 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.

Pat Sabatini

4.27takedowns / 15 min
4.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.33 / 15m
10.41 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.36 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
14%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Tristan Connelly

0.33takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Pat Sabatini↑ +20.1pp
open 46.8%close 66.9%
Tristan Connelly↓ −20.1pp
open 53.2%close 33.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Pat Sabatini opened at 46.8% and closed at 66.9% (+20.1pp), with Tristan Connelly 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
Pat Sabatini105-23746.8%66.9%+20.1pp
Tristan Connelly-12518753.2%33.1%−20.1pp
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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