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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai · Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Miguel Baeza
From the tape · 5 Jun 2021

Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Miguel Baeza

UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Santiago Ponzinibbio beat Miguel Baeza

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · 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 SantiagoPonzinibbio“Argentine Dagger”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MiguelBaeza“Caramel Thunder”MMA Masters · Davie, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds5 Jun 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Baeza.
  • Every one of Baeza’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
31-10
Record
10-4
34
Age
−6 yr28
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+912
UFC bouts
3
5/956% of wins
Finishes
+44%3/3100% of wins
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
Santiago Ponzinibbio15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 47BODY13%2 of 3LEGS7%1 of 2
Miguel Baeza39 sig landed
HEAD28%11 of 43BODY21%8 of 10LEGS51%20 of 20
15 of 52
Sig.
strikes
39 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Santiago Ponzinibbio47 sig landed
HEAD81%38 of 98BODY9%4 of 4LEGS11%5 of 5
Miguel Baeza27 sig landed
HEAD26%7 of 37BODY26%7 of 12LEGS48%13 of 17
47 of 107
Sig.
strikes
27 of 66
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 47Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Santiago Ponzinibbio59 sig landed
HEAD81%48 of 100BODY10%6 of 6LEGS8%5 of 5
Miguel Baeza38 sig landed
HEAD47%18 of 86BODY24%9 of 12LEGS29%11 of 12
59 of 111
Sig.
strikes
38 of 110
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 59Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9

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
Santiago PonzinibbioMiguel Baeza
Official totals — Santiago Ponzinibbio first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% 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 — 16 scored, Santiago Ponzinibbio first · unofficial

Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ponzinibbio · 86%29-28 Baeza · 6%29-27 Ponzinibbio · 2%30-27 Ponzinibbio · 1%

102 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.

Santiago Ponzinibbio

0.60takedowns / 15 min
0.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.36 / 15m
2.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.64 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
22%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.00 / 15m

Miguel Baeza

0.36takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Santiago Ponzinibbio↓ −13.6pp
open 56.2%close 42.6%
Miguel Baeza↑ +13.6pp
open 43.8%close 57.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Santiago Ponzinibbio opened at 56.2% and closed at 42.6% (−13.6pp), with Miguel Baeza 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
Santiago Ponzinibbio-14012456.2%42.6%−13.6pp
Miguel Baeza120-15143.8%57.4%+13.6pp
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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