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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt · Rob Font vs Cody Garbrandt
From the tape · 22 May 2021

Rob Font vs Cody Garbrandt

UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rob Font beat Cody Garbrandt

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMainReferee · 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 RobFontNew England Cartel · Boston, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CodyGarbrandt“No Love”Team Alpha Male · Uhrichsville, Ohio
Bantamweight5 rounds22 May 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Carries 44 points more takedown defence than Font.
22-10
Record
15-8
33
Age
−4 yr29
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
+6″71″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+111
UFC bouts
10
+4%6/875% of wins
Finishes
5/771% of wins
New England Cartel
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Boston, Massachusetts
From
Uhrichsville, Ohio
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
Rob Font21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 36BODY24%5 of 5LEGS10%2 of 3
Cody Garbrandt13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 22BODY8%1 of 2LEGS23%3 of 3
21 of 44
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
0:53
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 4
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rob Font27 sig landed
HEAD78%21 of 48BODY15%4 of 5LEGS7%2 of 2
Cody Garbrandt8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 17BODY25%2 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
27 of 55
Sig.
strikes
8 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
1:58
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Rob Font32 sig landed
HEAD81%26 of 60BODY12%4 of 6LEGS6%2 of 2
Cody Garbrandt15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS13%2 of 2
32 of 68
Sig.
strikes
15 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:12
Control
0:02
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Rob Font51 sig landed
HEAD82%42 of 90BODY14%7 of 8LEGS4%2 of 3
Cody Garbrandt12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 20BODY8%1 of 1LEGS25%3 of 4
51 of 101
Sig.
strikes
12 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 51Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rob Font45 sig landed
HEAD93%42 of 92BODY7%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Cody Garbrandt15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 34BODY27%4 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
45 of 97
Sig.
strikes
15 of 40
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:09
Distance 44Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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
Rob FontCody Garbrandt
Official totals — Rob Font first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide50–45

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, Rob Font first · unofficial

Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com50–44
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com50–44
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com50–45
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl50–45
Nick Baldwin theScore50–45
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com50–45
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–45
Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
MM AMania.com49–46
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com49–46
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com49–46
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com49–46
Bloody Elbow.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Font · 36%49-46 Font · 34%48-47 Font · 10%50-44 Font · 7%48-47 Garbrandt · 4%

221 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.

Rob Font

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.85 / 15m
2.41 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.86 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
22%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Cody Garbrandt

0.85takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Rob Font→ no move
open 53.2%close 53.5%
Cody Garbrandt→ no move
open 46.8%close 46.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Rob Font opened at 53.2% and closed at 53.5% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Rob Font-125-12853.2%53.5%+0.3pp
Cody Garbrandt10510546.8%46.5%−0.3pp
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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