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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen · Trevin Giles vs Preston Parsons
From the tape · 25 Mar 2023

Trevin Giles vs Preston Parsons

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

Trevin Giles beat Preston Parsons

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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.

TG
Red corner TrevinGilesW4R Training Center · Houston, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PrestonParsons“Pressure”Elevate MMA · Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds25 Mar 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Giles.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Parsons.
16-7
Record
11-6
30
Age
−3 yr27
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+3″74″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+810
UFC bouts
2
3/650% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
W4R Training Center
Gym
Elevate MMA
Houston, Texas
From
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
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 action2 sub attempts
Trevin Giles14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 25BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Preston Parsons14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 23BODY14%2 of 2LEGS21%3 of 3
14 of 26
Sig.
strikes
14 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:26
Control
1:52
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Giles firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Trevin Giles18 sig landed
HEAD83%15 of 36BODY17%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Preston Parsons13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 26BODY23%3 of 3LEGS23%3 of 3
18 of 40
Sig.
strikes
13 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:23
Control
1:30
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Giles firstSal D'Amato10–9Gino Garcia10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Trevin Giles23 sig landed
HEAD96%22 of 41BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Preston Parsons15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 28BODY7%1 of 1LEGS40%6 of 6
23 of 42
Sig.
strikes
15 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:25
Control
1:54
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Giles firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9

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 · Kerry Hatley
Trevin GilesPreston Parsons
Official totals — Trevin Giles first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Gino Garcia29–28
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% 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 — 14 scored, Trevin Giles first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Jake Noecker BetQL29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Jack Dankoff Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Giles · 48%29-28 Parsons · 43%30-27 Giles · 7%30-28 Giles · 1%

82 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.

Trevin Giles

1.07takedowns / 15 min
1.07 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.46 / 15m
2.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.61 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
36%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.30 / 15m

Preston Parsons

3.46takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Trevin Giles↓ −2.1pp
open 50.0%close 47.9%
Preston Parsons↑ +2.1pp
open 50.0%close 52.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Trevin Giles opened at 50.0% and closed at 47.9% (−2.1pp), with Preston Parsons 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
Trevin Giles-110-10150.0%47.9%−2.1pp
Preston Parsons-110-12050.0%52.1%+2.1pp
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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