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Events · UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Roxanne Modafferi vs Taila Santos
From the tape · 25 Sep 2021

Roxanne Modafferi vs Taila Santos

UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Taila Santos beat Roxanne Modafferi

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.

RM
Red corner RoxanneModafferi“The Happy Warrior”Syndicate MMA · Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner TailaSantosTeam Taila Santos · Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina
Women's Flyweight3 rounds25 Sep 2021
The story going in
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Santos.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 56 points more takedown defence than Modafferi.
25-21
Record
19-3
39
Age
−11 yr28
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
+1″69″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+710
UFC bouts
3
1/425% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Syndicate MMA
Gym
Team Taila Santos
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Jaragua do Sul, Santa Catarina
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
Roxanne Modafferi6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 20BODY17%1 of 1LEGS33%2 of 3
Taila Santos18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 21BODY39%7 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
6 of 24
Sig.
strikes
18 of 30
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:17
Control
2:50
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 8Ground 1
Judges · this round · Modafferi firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Roxanne Modafferi4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Taila Santos9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 12BODY0%0 of 2LEGS33%3 of 3
4 of 12
Sig.
strikes
9 of 17
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:30
Control
2:49
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Modafferi firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD SantosEnded 5:00
Roxanne Modafferi8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 53BODY12%1 of 2LEGS12%1 of 1
Taila Santos28 sig landed
HEAD79%22 of 42BODY4%1 of 1LEGS18%5 of 5
8 of 56
Sig.
strikes
28 of 48
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:15
Control
2:24
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Modafferi firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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
Roxanne ModafferiTaila Santos
Official totals — Roxanne Modafferi first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30

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 — 18 scored, Roxanne Modafferi first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Jillian DeCoursey27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Scott Fontana New York Post27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Santos · 64%30-26 Santos · 29%30-25 Santos · 4%30-27 Modafferi · 4%

28 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.

Roxanne Modafferi

1.35takedowns / 15 min
1.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.00 / 15m
5.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.63 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
76%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Taila Santos

2.00takedowns / 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.

Roxanne Modafferi↓ −10.7pp
open 33.2%close 22.5%
Taila Santos↑ +10.7pp
open 66.8%close 77.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Roxanne Modafferi opened at 33.2% and closed at 22.5% (−10.7pp), with Taila Santos 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
Roxanne Modafferi19032833.2%22.5%−10.7pp
Taila Santos-225-40866.8%77.5%+10.7pp
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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