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Events · UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje · Journey Newson vs Fernie Garcia
From the tape · 7 May 2022

Journey Newson vs Fernie Garcia

UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

Journey Newson beat Fernie Garcia

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Ryan Brueggeman

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.

JN
Red corner JourneyNewsonImpact Jiu Jitsu · Beaverton, Oregon
VSOn the tape
FG
Blue corner FernieGarciaFortis MMA · Dallas, Texas
Bantamweight3 rounds7 May 2022
10-5
Record
10-5
33
Age
−3 yr30
5' 5"
Height
+2″5' 7"
67″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Impact Jiu Jitsu
Gym
Fortis MMA
Beaverton, Oregon
From
Dallas, Texas
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
Journey Newson7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 30BODY29%2 of 5LEGS43%3 of 6
Fernie Garcia11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 25BODY0%0 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
7 of 41
Sig.
strikes
11 of 27
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:17
Control
0:02
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Newson firstBrad Frank9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Journey Newson28 sig landed
HEAD36%10 of 29BODY46%13 of 16LEGS18%5 of 7
Fernie Garcia14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 33BODY29%4 of 6LEGS14%2 of 2
28 of 52
Sig.
strikes
14 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Newson firstBrad Frank10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Journey Newson22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 33BODY27%6 of 9LEGS23%5 of 8
Fernie Garcia12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 26BODY17%2 of 5LEGS33%4 of 4
22 of 50
Sig.
strikes
12 of 35
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Newson firstBrad Frank10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Ryan Brueggeman
Journey NewsonFernie Garcia
Official totals — Journey Newson first
JudgeTotal
Brad Frank29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 12 scored, Journey Newson first · unofficial

Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com30–27
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Newson · 72%30-27 Newson · 28%

29 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.

Journey Newson

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.28 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.56 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
50%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Fernie Garcia

0.28takedowns / 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.

Journey Newson↑ +1.7pp
open 42.0%close 43.7%
Fernie Garcia↓ −1.7pp
open 58.0%close 56.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Journey Newson opened at 42.0% and closed at 43.7% (+1.7pp), with Fernie Garcia 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
Journey Newson13011942.0%43.7%+1.7pp
Fernie Garcia-150-14358.0%56.3%−1.7pp
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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