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History · 2022 · UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev · Paddy Pimblett vs Jared Gordon
From the tape · 10 Dec 2022

Paddy Pimblett vs Jared Gordon

UFC 282: Blachowicz vs. Ankalaev · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Paddy Pimblett beat Jared Gordon

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-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 PaddyPimblett“The Baddy”Next Generation MMA Liverpool · Liverpool, Merseyside
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JaredGordon“Flash”Kill Cliff FC · Queens, New York
Lightweight3 rounds10 Dec 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Pimblett.
  • Every one of Pimblett’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 13 points more striking defence than Pimblett.
24-4
Record
21-9
−7 yr27
Age
34
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+5″73″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+811
+86%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
1/714% of wins
Next Generation MMA Liverpool
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Liverpool, Merseyside
From
Queens, New York
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
Paddy Pimblett29 sig landed
HEAD55%16 of 55BODY7%2 of 4LEGS38%11 of 11
Jared Gordon32 sig landed
HEAD53%17 of 28BODY22%7 of 17LEGS25%8 of 8
29 of 70
Sig.
strikes
32 of 53
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:28
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Pimblett firstDouglas Crosby10–9Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Paddy Pimblett28 sig landed
HEAD46%13 of 54BODY39%11 of 12LEGS14%4 of 4
Jared Gordon24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 32BODY21%5 of 8LEGS25%6 of 6
28 of 70
Sig.
strikes
24 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
2:07
Distance 24Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pimblett firstDouglas Crosby10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Paddy Pimblett6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%2 of 2
Jared Gordon4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 2BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
4 of 4
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:35
Control
3:53
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pimblett firstDouglas Crosby9–10Chris Lee10–9Ron 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Paddy PimblettJared Gordon
Official totals — Paddy Pimblett first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28

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 — 24 scored, Paddy Pimblett first · unofficial

Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
Shaun Al- Shatti The Athletic28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Alex Behunin Cageside Press28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Ben Davis27–30
Jake Noecker BetQL27–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
E. Casey Leydon27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Bloody Elbow.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gordon · 48%29-28 Gordon · 40%29-28 Pimblett · 8%30-28 Gordon · 1%30-27 Pimblett · 1%

3,511 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.

Paddy Pimblett

0.69takedowns / 15 min
0.69 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.91 / 15m
3.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.62 / 15m
21%
ACCURACY
34%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jared Gordon

1.91takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Paddy Pimblett↑ +26.3pp
open 42.9%close 69.2%
Jared Gordon↓ −26.3pp
open 57.1%close 30.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Paddy Pimblett opened at 42.9% and closed at 69.2% (+26.3pp), with Jared Gordon 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
Paddy Pimblett125-25842.9%69.2%+26.3pp
Jared Gordon-14521257.1%30.8%−26.3pp
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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