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Events · UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje · Rose Namajunas vs Carla Esparza
From the tape · 7 May 2022

Rose Namajunas vs Carla Esparza

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

Carla Esparza beat Rose Namajunas

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Women's Strawweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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 RoseNamajunas“Thug”Genesis Training Academy · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CarlaEsparza“Cookie Monster”Team Oyama · Redondo Beach, California
Women's Strawweight Title5 rounds7 May 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 9 UFC wins.
15-8
Record
20-8
−5 yr29
Age
34
+4″5' 5"
Height
5' 1"
+2″65″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+113
+33%5/956% of wins
Finishes
2/922% of wins
Genesis Training Academy
Gym
Team Oyama
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Redondo Beach, 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rose Namajunas4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 18BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Carla Esparza4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%2 of 2
4 of 19
Sig.
strikes
4 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Namajunas firstEric Colón10–9Brad Frank9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rose Namajunas3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Carla Esparza4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 17BODY25%1 of 2LEGS50%2 of 3
3 of 14
Sig.
strikes
4 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Namajunas firstEric Colón9–10Brad Frank9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Rose Namajunas11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 33BODY9%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Carla Esparza9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 28BODY22%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
11 of 36
Sig.
strikes
9 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Namajunas firstEric Colón10–9Brad Frank10–9Rick Winter9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Rose Namajunas6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Carla Esparza8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 22BODY12%1 of 3LEGS50%4 of 4
6 of 28
Sig.
strikes
8 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:02
Control
0:20
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Namajunas firstEric Colón9–10Brad Frank9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rose Namajunas13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 30BODY38%5 of 8LEGS8%1 of 1
Carla Esparza5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 24BODY0%0 of 3LEGS60%3 of 4
13 of 39
Sig.
strikes
5 of 31
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:08
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Namajunas firstEric Colón10–9Brad Frank10–9Rick Winter10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Rose NamajunasCarla Esparza
Official totals — Rose Namajunas first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide48–47
Brad Frank47–48
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide46–49

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, Rose Namajunas first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com47–49
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–49
Combat Press.com47–49
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com48–49
John Pollock POST Wrestling47–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com47–48
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
MM AJunkie.com47–48
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–48
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Nick Baldwin theScore48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News48–47
Scott Fontana New York Post49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Esparza · 16%48-47 Namajunas · 14%49-47 Esparza · 13%49-46 Esparza · 12%

761 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.

Rose Namajunas

1.47takedowns / 15 min
1.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.28 / 15m
3.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.11 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
36%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Carla Esparza

3.28takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Rose Namajunas↓ −0.8pp
open 66.2%close 65.4%
Carla Esparza↑ +0.8pp
open 33.8%close 34.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rose Namajunas opened at 66.2% and closed at 65.4% (−0.8pp), with Carla Esparza 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
Rose Namajunas-220-21766.2%65.4%−0.8pp
Carla Esparza18517633.8%34.6%+0.8pp
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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