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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield · Jordan Wright vs Zac Pauga
From the tape · 18 Feb 2023

Jordan Wright vs Zac Pauga

UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs. Blanchfield · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Zac Pauga beat Jordan Wright

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

JW
Red corner JordanWright“The Beverly Hills Ninja”Jackson-Wink MMA · Los Angeles, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ZacPauga“The High Chief”Elevation Fight Team · Denver, Colorado
Light Heavyweight3 rounds18 Feb 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 27 points more striking defence than Wright.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Pauga.
12-5
Record
7-3
−3 yr31
Age
34
6' 2"
Height
6' 2"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+56
UFC bouts
1
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Elevation Fight Team
Los Angeles, California
From
Denver, 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
Jordan Wright5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 3BODY80%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Zac Pauga22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 11BODY50%11 of 12LEGS14%3 of 3
5 of 7
Sig.
strikes
22 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
4:32
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 21Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wright firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jordan Wright7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 16BODY29%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Zac Pauga15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 16BODY20%3 of 4LEGS13%2 of 2
7 of 19
Sig.
strikes
15 of 22
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:10
Control
3:27
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wright firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jordan Wright17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 36BODY41%7 of 14LEGS6%1 of 2
Zac Pauga22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 27BODY32%7 of 8LEGS9%2 of 2
17 of 52
Sig.
strikes
22 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:03
Control
0:41
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wright firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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
Jordan WrightZac Pauga
Official totals — Jordan Wright first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 13 scored, Jordan Wright first · unofficial

Jillian DeCoursey27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dan Urban Couchside Judges27–30
Jake Noecker BetQL27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Scott Fontana New York Post27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com27–30
Jack Dankoff Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pauga · 94%30-25 Pauga · 6%

16 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.

Jordan Wright

2.09takedowns / 15 min
2.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.38 / 15m
4.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.43 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
7%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Zac Pauga

0.38takedowns / 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.

Jordan Wright↓ −6.7pp
open 35.9%close 29.2%
Zac Pauga↑ +6.7pp
open 64.1%close 70.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jordan Wright opened at 35.9% and closed at 29.2% (−6.7pp), with Zac Pauga 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
Jordan Wright17022735.9%29.2%−6.7pp
Zac Pauga-195-28564.1%70.8%+6.7pp
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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