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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov · Ketlen Vieira vs Raquel Pennington
From the tape · 14 Jan 2023

Ketlen Vieira vs Raquel Pennington

UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Raquel Pennington beat Ketlen Vieira

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 KetlenVieira“Fenomeno”Nova Uniao · Manaus, Amazonas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RaquelPennington“Rocky”Altitude MMA · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds14 Jan 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Pennington.
  • Has finished 3 of 11 UFC wins.
16-5
Record
16-10
−3 yr31
Age
34
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+716
1/714% of wins
Finishes
+13%3/1127% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
Altitude MMA
Manaus, Amazonas
From
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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
Ketlen Vieira23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 58BODY13%3 of 7LEGS22%5 of 6
Raquel Pennington27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 44BODY33%9 of 9LEGS15%4 of 5
23 of 71
Sig.
strikes
27 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vieira firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ketlen Vieira21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 39BODY10%2 of 3LEGS43%9 of 9
Raquel Pennington29 sig landed
HEAD48%14 of 43BODY38%11 of 14LEGS14%4 of 4
21 of 51
Sig.
strikes
29 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:28
Control
0:37
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vieira firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ketlen Vieira20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%4 of 5
Raquel Pennington25 sig landed
HEAD36%9 of 24BODY48%12 of 12LEGS16%4 of 4
20 of 30
Sig.
strikes
25 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:04
Control
0:41
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vieira firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Ketlen VieiraRaquel Pennington
Official totals — Ketlen Vieira first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 15 scored, Ketlen Vieira first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Jack Dankoff Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vieira · 60%29-28 Pennington · 36%30-27 Pennington · 3%30-27 Vieira · 1%

142 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.

Ketlen Vieira

1.31takedowns / 15 min
1.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.83 / 15m
3.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.07 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
27%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Raquel Pennington

0.83takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's 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.

Ketlen Vieira↓ −1.6pp
open 57.1%close 55.5%
Raquel Pennington↑ +1.6pp
open 42.9%close 44.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ketlen Vieira opened at 57.1% and closed at 55.5% (−1.6pp), with Raquel Pennington 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
Ketlen Vieira-145-13757.1%55.5%−1.6pp
Raquel Pennington12511642.9%44.5%+1.6pp
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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