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Events · UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier · Pedro Munhoz vs Dominick Cruz
From the tape · 11 Dec 2021

Pedro Munhoz vs Dominick Cruz

UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Dominick Cruz beat Pedro Munhoz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 PedroMunhoz“The Young Punisher”American Top Team · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DominickCruz“The Dominator”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
Bantamweight3 rounds11 Dec 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Munhoz.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Cruz.
20-10
Record
24-4
−1 yr35
Age
36
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
65″
Reach
+3″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+816
UFC bouts
8
+50%6/967% of wins
Finishes
1/617% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Alliance MMA
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
From
San Diego, California
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⚡ 1 KD Munhoz
Pedro Munhoz21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 33BODY10%2 of 5LEGS24%5 of 7
Dominick Cruz25 sig landed
HEAD72%18 of 42BODY20%5 of 7LEGS8%2 of 2
21 of 45
Sig.
strikes
25 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:10
Control
0:03
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Munhoz firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Pedro Munhoz27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 39BODY19%5 of 5LEGS37%10 of 13
Dominick Cruz35 sig landed
HEAD86%30 of 105BODY6%2 of 5LEGS9%3 of 3
27 of 57
Sig.
strikes
35 of 113
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Munhoz firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Pedro Munhoz26 sig landed
HEAD73%19 of 56BODY12%3 of 6LEGS15%4 of 6
Dominick Cruz43 sig landed
HEAD72%31 of 93BODY14%6 of 11LEGS14%6 of 6
26 of 68
Sig.
strikes
43 of 110
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:00
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 43Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Munhoz firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal 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 · Marc Goddard
Pedro MunhozDominick Cruz
Official totals — Pedro Munhoz first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29

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, Pedro Munhoz first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cruz · 78%30-26 Munhoz · 2%30-27 Cruz · 1%

140 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.

Pedro Munhoz

0.48takedowns / 15 min
0.48 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.82 / 15m
3.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.71 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
42%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Dominick Cruz

2.82takedowns / 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.

Pedro Munhoz↓ −7.9pp
open 58.8%close 51.0%
Dominick Cruz↑ +7.9pp
open 41.2%close 49.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Pedro Munhoz opened at 58.8% and closed at 51.0% (−7.9pp), with Dominick Cruz 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
Pedro Munhoz-155-11558.8%51.0%−7.9pp
Dominick Cruz135-10641.2%49.0%+7.9pp
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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