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Events · UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane · Alonzo Menifield vs Ed Herman
From the tape · 7 Aug 2021

Alonzo Menifield vs Ed Herman

UFC 265: Lewis vs. Gane · Houston, Texas, USA
Result

Alonzo Menifield beat Ed Herman

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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 AlonzoMenifield“Atomic”Saekson Muay Thai · Dallas, Texas
VSOn the tape
EH
Blue corner EdHerman“Short Fuse”American Top Team Portland · Portland, Oregon
Light Heavyweight3 rounds7 Aug 2021
The story going in
  • Every one of Menifield’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 19 points more takedown defence than Herman.
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
18-6-1
Record
27-16
−7 yr33
Age
40
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
76″
Reach
+1″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+1924
+31%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
9/1369% of wins
Saekson Muay Thai
Gym
American Top Team Portland
Dallas, Texas
From
Portland, Oregon
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
Alonzo Menifield23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 29BODY9%2 of 2LEGS26%6 of 6
Ed Herman16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 37BODY12%2 of 2LEGS6%1 of 1
23 of 37
Sig.
strikes
16 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Menifield firstRobert Alexander10–9JJ Ferraro10–9Patrick Patlán10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alonzo Menifield42 sig landed
HEAD83%35 of 51BODY5%2 of 2LEGS12%5 of 5
Ed Herman16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 45BODY31%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
42 of 58
Sig.
strikes
16 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:01
Distance 30Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Menifield firstRobert Alexander10–9JJ Ferraro10–9Patrick Patlán10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alonzo Menifield28 sig landed
HEAD89%25 of 42BODY0%0 landedLEGS11%3 of 3
Ed Herman9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 33BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
28 of 45
Sig.
strikes
9 of 35
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:43
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Menifield firstRobert Alexander10–9JJ Ferraro10–9Patrick Patlán10–9

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 · Kerry Hatley
Alonzo MenifieldEd Herman
Official totals — Alonzo Menifield first
JudgeTotal
Robert Alexander30–27
JJ Ferraro30–27
Patrick Patlán30–27

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, Alonzo Menifield first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–26
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Chris Connor The Fight City30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Menifield · 66%30-26 Menifield · 25%29-27 Menifield · 4%29-28 Menifield · 2%29-28 Herman · 2%

44 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.

Alonzo Menifield

0.50takedowns / 15 min
0.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.96 / 15m
1.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.17 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
47%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ed Herman

1.96takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Alonzo Menifield↑ +13.3pp
open 56.2%close 69.5%
Ed Herman↓ −13.3pp
open 43.8%close 30.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alonzo Menifield opened at 56.2% and closed at 69.5% (+13.3pp), with Ed Herman 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
Alonzo Menifield-140-26956.2%69.5%+13.3pp
Ed Herman12021343.8%30.5%−13.3pp
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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