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Events · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann · Erin Blanchfield vs Sarah Alpar
From the tape · 18 Sep 2021

Erin Blanchfield vs Sarah Alpar

UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Erin Blanchfield beat Sarah Alpar

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain 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.

Red corner ErinBlanchfield“Cold Blooded”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Elmwood Park, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
SA
Blue corner SarahAlpar“Too Sweet”American Elite MMA · Amarillo, Texas
Women's Flyweight3 rounds18 Sep 2021
14-2
Record
9-6
−8 yr22
Age
30
5' 4"
Height
5' 4"
+3″66″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
American Elite MMA
Elmwood Park, New Jersey
From
Amarillo, Texas
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
Erin Blanchfield41 sig landed
HEAD71%29 of 65BODY15%6 of 7LEGS15%6 of 6
Sarah Alpar13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 40BODY8%1 of 4LEGS15%2 of 2
41 of 78
Sig.
strikes
13 of 46
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:55
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 7Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blanchfield firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Erin Blanchfield41 sig landed
HEAD88%36 of 63BODY10%4 of 5LEGS2%1 of 1
Sarah Alpar10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 20BODY20%2 of 2LEGS40%4 of 4
41 of 69
Sig.
strikes
10 of 26
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:37
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 23
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blanchfield firstAdalaide Byrd10–8Derek Cleary10–8Junichiro Kamijo10–8
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Erin Blanchfield38 sig landed
HEAD76%29 of 54BODY13%5 of 5LEGS11%4 of 4
Sarah Alpar18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 27BODY28%5 of 7LEGS28%5 of 7
38 of 63
Sig.
strikes
18 of 41
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:11
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blanchfield firstAdalaide Byrd10–8Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–8

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
Erin BlanchfieldSarah Alpar
Official totals — Erin Blanchfield first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–25
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–25

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 — 12 scored, Erin Blanchfield first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–24
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA30–24
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com30–24
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–25
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–25
MM AJunkie.com30–25
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–25
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–25
MM AMania.com30–26
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–26
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–26

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Blanchfield · 42%30-24 Blanchfield · 33%30-26 Blanchfield · 17%30-27 Blanchfield · 4%30-24 Alpar · 4%

24 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.

Erin Blanchfield

1.96takedowns / 15 min
1.96 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.61 / 15m
5.76 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.19 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
26%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Sarah Alpar

1.61takedowns / 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 (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

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.

Erin Blanchfield↑ +14.4pp
open 62.1%close 76.5%
Sarah Alpar↓ −14.4pp
open 37.9%close 23.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Erin Blanchfield opened at 62.1% and closed at 76.5% (+14.4pp), with Sarah Alpar 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
Erin Blanchfield-180-39762.1%76.5%+14.4pp
Sarah Alpar15530737.9%23.5%−14.4pp
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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