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Events · UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka · Luke Sanders vs Felipe Colares
From the tape · 1 May 2021

Luke Sanders vs Felipe Colares

UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Felipe Colares beat Luke Sanders

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain 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.

LS
Red corner LukeSanders“Cool Hand”Clarksville, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
FC
Blue corner FelipeColares“Cabocao”Team Nogueira · Macapa, Amapa
Featherweight3 rounds1 May 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Sanders.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Colares.
13-5
Record
10-4
35
Age
−8 yr27
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+47
UFC bouts
3
2/367% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Clarksville, Tennessee
From
Macapa, Amapa
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 Sanders
Luke Sanders48 sig landed
HEAD83%40 of 69BODY12%6 of 6LEGS4%2 of 2
Felipe Colares16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 20BODY44%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
48 of 77
Sig.
strikes
16 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:39
Control
0:34
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 30Clinch 9Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanders firstMichael Bell10–9Adalaide Byrd10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Luke Sanders33 sig landed
HEAD76%25 of 39BODY9%3 of 4LEGS15%5 of 5
Felipe Colares25 sig landed
HEAD72%18 of 35BODY24%6 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
33 of 48
Sig.
strikes
25 of 44
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:42
Control
1:45
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 5
Judges · this round · Sanders firstMichael Bell9–10Adalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Luke Sanders37 sig landed
HEAD76%28 of 74BODY19%7 of 10LEGS5%2 of 2
Felipe Colares37 sig landed
HEAD65%24 of 46BODY35%13 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 86
Sig.
strikes
37 of 60
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:34
Control
0:35
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanders firstMichael Bell9–10Adalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Luke SandersFelipe Colares
Official totals — Luke Sanders first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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, Luke Sanders first · unofficial

Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com27–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges27–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
Combat Press.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Colares · 50%29-28 Sanders · 20%29-27 Sanders · 11%29-27 Colares · 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.

Luke Sanders

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.88 / 15m
2.37 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.83 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
24%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Felipe Colares

1.88takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Luke Sanders↓ −9.1pp
open 64.3%close 55.2%
Felipe Colares↑ +9.1pp
open 35.7%close 44.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Luke Sanders opened at 64.3% and closed at 55.2% (−9.1pp), with Felipe Colares 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
Luke Sanders-200-13764.3%55.2%−9.1pp
Felipe Colares17011335.7%44.8%+9.1pp
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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