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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira · Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Michel Pereira
From the tape · 21 May 2022

Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Michel Pereira

UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Vieira · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Michel Pereira beat Santiago Ponzinibbio

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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 SantiagoPonzinibbio“Argentine Dagger”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MichelPereira“Demolidor”Overcome Academy · Tucuma, Para
Welterweight3 rounds21 May 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Pereira.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
31-10
Record
32-15
35
Age
−7 yr28
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
73″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+714
UFC bouts
7
+10%5/1050% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
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
Santiago Ponzinibbio16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 29BODY31%5 of 5LEGS19%3 of 5
Michel Pereira24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 27BODY50%12 of 15LEGS12%3 of 3
16 of 39
Sig.
strikes
24 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Santiago Ponzinibbio34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 56BODY12%4 of 5LEGS12%4 of 5
Michel Pereira35 sig landed
HEAD40%14 of 44BODY49%17 of 21LEGS11%4 of 5
34 of 66
Sig.
strikes
35 of 70
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:18
Control
0:00
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Santiago Ponzinibbio55 sig landed
HEAD80%44 of 100BODY7%4 of 8LEGS13%7 of 7
Michel Pereira51 sig landed
HEAD57%29 of 72BODY25%13 of 20LEGS18%9 of 9
55 of 115
Sig.
strikes
51 of 101
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 54Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 50Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstMichael Bell10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Santiago PonzinibbioMichel Pereira
Official totals — Santiago Ponzinibbio first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 15 scored, Santiago Ponzinibbio first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Jillian DeCoursey28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pereira · 50%29-28 Ponzinibbio · 35%30-27 Pereira · 9%30-27 Ponzinibbio · 1%

310 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.

Santiago Ponzinibbio

0.60takedowns / 15 min
0.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.21 / 15m
2.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.16 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
56%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Michel Pereira

1.21takedowns / 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.

Santiago Ponzinibbio↓ −13.8pp
open 58.0%close 44.1%
Michel Pereira↑ +13.8pp
open 42.0%close 55.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Santiago Ponzinibbio opened at 58.0% and closed at 44.1% (−13.8pp), with Michel Pereira 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
Santiago Ponzinibbio-15011758.0%44.1%−13.8pp
Michel Pereira130-14042.0%55.9%+13.8pp
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 2026-08-09. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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