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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann · Joaquin Buckley vs Antonio Arroyo
From the tape · 18 Sep 2021

Joaquin Buckley vs Antonio Arroyo

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

Joaquin Buckley beat Antonio Arroyo

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
2:26
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 JoaquinBuckley“New Mansa”Murcielago MMA · St. Louis, Missouri
VSOn the tape
AA
Blue corner AntonioArroyoTeam Figueiredo · Belem, Para
Middleweight3 rounds18 Sep 2021
The story going in
  • Carries 29 points more takedown defence than Arroyo.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 30 points more accurate striking than Buckley.
21-8
Record
9-5
−5 yr27
Age
32
5' 10"
Height
+5″6' 3"
+3″76″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
Murcielago MMA
Gym
Team Figueiredo
St. Louis, Missouri
From
Belem, Para
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Joaquin Buckley15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 24BODY33%5 of 11LEGS53%8 of 9
Antonio Arroyo6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 10BODY50%3 of 6LEGS33%2 of 2
15 of 44
Sig.
strikes
6 of 18
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Joaquin Buckley12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 17BODY25%3 of 6LEGS58%7 of 8
Antonio Arroyo10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 7BODY40%4 of 6LEGS50%5 of 5
12 of 31
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:55
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 32:26 of action⚡ 1 KD BuckleyEnded 2:26
Joaquin Buckley14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 18BODY29%4 of 5LEGS14%2 of 4
Antonio Arroyo5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 5BODY60%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:14
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Joaquin Buckley

Round
3
Clock
2:26
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mark Smith.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Joaquin Buckley

1.43takedowns / 15 min
1.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.14 / 15m
3.18 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.78 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
41%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Antonio Arroyo

1.14takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Joaquin Buckley→ no move
open 63.5%close 63.3%
Antonio Arroyo→ no move
open 36.5%close 36.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Joaquin Buckley opened at 63.5% and closed at 63.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp 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
Joaquin Buckley-190-19263.5%63.3%−0.2pp
Antonio Arroyo16516236.5%36.7%+0.2pp
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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