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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Waterson · Marina Rodriguez vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez
From the tape · 8 May 2021

Marina Rodriguez vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Waterson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Marina Rodriguez beat Michelle Waterson-Gomez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMainReferee · 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.

Red corner MarinaRodriguezThai Brasil · Bage, Rio Grande do Sul
VSOn the tape
MW
Blue corner MichelleWaterson-GomezJackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Women's Flyweight5 rounds8 May 2021
The story going in
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Waterson-Gomez.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Rodriguez.
17-6-2
Record
18-13
−1 yr34
Age
35
+3″5' 6"
Height
5' 3"
+3″65″
Reach
62″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+410
1/333% of wins
Finishes
2/633% of wins
Thai Brasil
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Bage, Rio Grande do Sul
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Marina Rodriguez21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 31BODY19%4 of 8LEGS38%8 of 12
Michelle Waterson-Gomez13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 18BODY38%5 of 9LEGS15%2 of 10
21 of 51
Sig.
strikes
13 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Marina Rodriguez27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 39BODY22%6 of 8LEGS33%9 of 16
Michelle Waterson-Gomez18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 26BODY28%5 of 7LEGS28%5 of 7
27 of 63
Sig.
strikes
18 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:43
Control
0:03
Distance 20Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Marina Rodriguez38 sig landed
HEAD66%25 of 59BODY18%7 of 10LEGS16%6 of 9
Michelle Waterson-Gomez21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 24BODY29%6 of 8LEGS29%6 of 11
38 of 78
Sig.
strikes
21 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:35
Distance 31Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Marina Rodriguez7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 15BODY14%1 of 1LEGS71%5 of 6
Michelle Waterson-Gomez14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 19BODY14%2 of 3LEGS14%2 of 2
7 of 22
Sig.
strikes
14 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:14
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marina Rodriguez32 sig landed
HEAD41%13 of 44BODY31%10 of 14LEGS28%9 of 10
Michelle Waterson-Gomez22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 42BODY32%7 of 11LEGS23%5 of 8
32 of 68
Sig.
strikes
22 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Marina RodriguezMichelle Waterson-Gomez
Official totals — Marina Rodriguez first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide49–46

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, Marina Rodriguez first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com49–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Tim Bissell BloodyElbow.com49–46
Steven Marrocco MMAFighting.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges49–46
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com49–46
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com49–46
Nick Baldwin theScore49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com49–46
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com48–47
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Rodriguez · 54%48-47 Rodriguez · 23%48-47 Waterson-Gomez · 14%49-45 Rodriguez · 3%48-46 Rodriguez · 3%

69 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.

Marina Rodriguez

0.27takedowns / 15 min
0.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.39 / 15m
0.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.21 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
33%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Michelle Waterson-Gomez

1.39takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Marina Rodriguez vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez.

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