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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Spann · Montel Jackson vs JP Buys
From the tape · 18 Sep 2021

Montel Jackson vs JP Buys

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

Montel Jackson beat JP Buys

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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 MontelJackson“Quik”Red Schafer MMA · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
JB
Blue corner JPBuys“Young Savage”
Bantamweight3 rounds18 Sep 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Buys.
15-4
Record
9-6
29
Age
−4 yr25
+5″5' 10"
Height
5' 5"
+8″75″
Reach
67″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+56
UFC bouts
1
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 action3 sub attempts
Montel Jackson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 8BODY50%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
JP Buys3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY33%1 of 3LEGS33%1 of 1
8 of 12
Sig.
strikes
3 of 8
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 4
2:36
Control
1:20
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Jackson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 2 KD Jackson1 sub attempt
Montel Jackson7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 10BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
JP Buys2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 12
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:07
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jackson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 2 KD JacksonEnded 5:00
Montel Jackson10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 18BODY10%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
JP Buys3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY67%2 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
3 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:20
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jackson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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
Montel JacksonJP Buys
Official totals — Montel Jackson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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 — 10 scored, Montel Jackson first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Jackson · 34%30-27 Jackson · 23%30-26 Jackson · 17%29-28 Jackson · 9%29-26 Jackson · 9%

35 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.

Montel Jackson

2.71takedowns / 15 min
2.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.55 / 15m
4.30 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.20 / 15m
63%
ACCURACY
25%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.30 / 15m

JP Buys

1.55takedowns / 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.

Montel Jackson↑ +1.8pp
open 81.1%close 82.9%
JP Buys↓ −1.8pp
open 18.9%close 17.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Montel Jackson opened at 81.1% and closed at 82.9% (+1.8pp), with JP Buys 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
Montel Jackson-600-66181.1%82.9%+1.8pp
JP Buys40045818.9%17.1%−1.8pp
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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