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Events · UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie · Mackenzie Dern vs Tecia Pennington
From the tape · 9 Apr 2022

Mackenzie Dern vs Tecia Pennington

UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Mackenzie Dern beat Tecia Pennington

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 MackenzieDernRVCA · Phoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TeciaPenningtonAmerican Top Team · Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Women's Strawweight3 rounds9 Apr 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 9 UFC wins.
17-5
Record
15-8
−3 yr29
Age
32
+3″5' 4"
Height
5' 1"
+3″63″
Reach
60″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+614
+44%4/667% of wins
Finishes
2/922% of wins
RVCA
Gym
American Top Team
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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
Mackenzie Dern28 sig landed
HEAD86%24 of 76BODY7%2 of 2LEGS7%2 of 2
Tecia Pennington35 sig landed
HEAD17%6 of 31BODY43%15 of 17LEGS40%14 of 14
28 of 80
Sig.
strikes
35 of 62
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:43
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dern firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Barry Luxenberg9–10
Round 25:00 of action3 sub attempts
Mackenzie Dern2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Tecia Pennington2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
2 of 13
Sig.
strikes
2 of 5
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:07
Control
2:06
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dern firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Barry Luxenberg10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mackenzie Dern20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 58BODY20%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Tecia Pennington39 sig landed
HEAD31%12 of 27BODY26%10 of 12LEGS44%17 of 18
20 of 63
Sig.
strikes
39 of 57
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:11
Control
0:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dern firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee9–10Barry Luxenberg9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Mackenzie DernTecia Pennington
Official totals — Mackenzie Dern first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Barry Luxenberg28–29

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 — 18 scored, Mackenzie Dern first · unofficial

Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland29–28
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Scott Fontana New York Post29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pennington · 67%29-28 Dern · 21%30-27 Dern · 2%29-27 Dern · 2%

442 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.

Mackenzie Dern

0.93takedowns / 15 min
0.93 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
5.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
18%
ACCURACY
14%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Tecia Pennington

0.56takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Mackenzie Dernclose only
no opening line on recordclose 53.0%
Tecia Penningtonclose only
no opening line on recordclose 47.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Mackenzie Dern 53.0%, Tecia Pennington 47.0%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Mackenzie Dern-110-12653.0%
Tecia Pennington10247.0%
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 2026-08-30 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Tecia Torres, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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