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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen · Steven Peterson vs Lucas Alexander
From the tape · 25 Mar 2023

Steven Peterson vs Lucas Alexander

UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen · San Antonio, Texas, USA
Result

Lucas Alexander beat Steven Peterson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Jacob Montalvo

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 StevenPeterson“Ocho”Fortis MMA · Plano, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LucasAlexander“The Lion”Fusion X-Cel Performance · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Featherweight3 rounds25 Mar 2023
The story going in
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Alexander.
  • Is 17 points more accurate striking than Peterson.
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Alexander.
19-11
Record
8-5
32
Age
−5 yr27
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+67
UFC bouts
1
Fortis MMA
Gym
Fusion X-Cel Performance
Plano, Texas
From
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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
Steven Peterson11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 18BODY36%4 of 6LEGS45%5 of 10
Lucas Alexander24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 26BODY21%5 of 7LEGS29%7 of 8
11 of 34
Sig.
strikes
24 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:05
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Peterson firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia9–10Joel Ojeda9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Steven Peterson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 23BODY12%1 of 4LEGS38%3 of 4
Lucas Alexander27 sig landed
HEAD37%10 of 35BODY22%6 of 8LEGS41%11 of 11
8 of 31
Sig.
strikes
27 of 54
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Peterson firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia9–10Joel Ojeda9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD AlexanderEnded 5:00
Steven Peterson7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 26BODY57%4 of 8LEGS14%1 of 2
Lucas Alexander34 sig landed
HEAD62%21 of 47BODY26%9 of 12LEGS12%4 of 4
7 of 36
Sig.
strikes
34 of 63
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:28
Control
0:42
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 6
Judges · this round · Peterson firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia9–10Joel Ojeda9–10

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 · Jacob Montalvo
Steven PetersonLucas Alexander
Official totals — Steven Peterson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Gino Garcia27–30
Joel Ojeda27–30

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 — 14 scored, Steven Peterson first · unofficial

Alex Behunin MMA Mania27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Jillian DeCoursey27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Jake Noecker BetQL27–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
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 Alexander · 74%30-26 Alexander · 16%30-25 Alexander · 5%30-26 Peterson · 5%

19 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.

Steven Peterson

1.42takedowns / 15 min
1.42 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
5.46 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
26%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Lucas Alexander

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Steven Peterson↓ −1.9pp
open 60.7%close 58.8%
Lucas Alexander↑ +1.9pp
open 39.3%close 41.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Steven Peterson opened at 60.7% and closed at 58.8% (−1.9pp), with Lucas Alexander 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
Steven Peterson-170-16060.7%58.8%−1.9pp
Lucas Alexander14513239.3%41.2%+1.9pp
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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