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History · 2022 · UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Melissa Martinez vs Elise Reed
From the tape · 10 Sep 2022

Melissa Martinez vs Elise Reed

UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Elise Reed beat Melissa Martinez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 MelissaMartinez“Super Mely”Bonebreakers Team · Mexico City
VSOn the tape
Blue corner EliseReedKickside Martial Arts · Princeton, New Jersey
Women's Strawweight3 rounds10 Sep 2022
8-2
Record
8-6
−4 yr25
Age
29
5' 2"
Height
+1″5' 3"
+3″66″
Reach
63″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Bonebreakers Team
Gym
Kickside Martial Arts
Mexico City
From
Princeton, New Jersey
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 Reed
Melissa Martinez16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 14BODY38%6 of 9LEGS31%5 of 5
Elise Reed9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 16BODY56%5 of 5LEGS22%2 of 2
16 of 28
Sig.
strikes
9 of 23
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
0:32
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Martinez firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Melissa Martinez19 sig landed
HEAD21%4 of 15BODY42%8 of 9LEGS37%7 of 7
Elise Reed13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 13BODY46%6 of 8LEGS15%2 of 3
19 of 31
Sig.
strikes
13 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:42
Control
0:45
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Martinez firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Melissa Martinez10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 9BODY30%3 of 3LEGS60%6 of 7
Elise Reed16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 15BODY38%6 of 6LEGS12%2 of 2
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
16 of 23
1 of 1
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:54
Control
2:18
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 7Ground 5
Judges · this round · Martinez firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Melissa MartinezElise Reed
Official totals — Melissa Martinez first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 17 scored, Melissa Martinez first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Alex Behunin Cageside Press28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jillian DeCoursey28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Reed · 87%30-27 Reed · 10%29-28 Martinez · 3%

31 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.

Melissa Martinez

0.35takedowns / 15 min
0.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.46 / 15m
0.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.77 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
60%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Elise Reed

0.46takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Melissa Martinez vs Elise Reed.

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