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Events · UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 · Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Luana Pinheiro
From the tape · 8 Apr 2023

Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Luana Pinheiro

UFC 287: Pereira vs. Adesanya 2 · Miami, Florida, USA
Result

Luana Pinheiro beat Michelle Waterson-Gomez

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Larry Folsom

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.

MW
Red corner MichelleWaterson-GomezJackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LuanaPinheiroNova Uniao · Joao Pessoa, Paraiba
Women's Strawweight3 rounds8 Apr 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Waterson-Gomez.
18-13
Record
11-5
37
Age
−7 yr30
+1″5' 3"
Height
5' 2"
62″
Reach
62″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1012
UFC bouts
2
2/633% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Nova Uniao
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Joao Pessoa, Paraiba
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
Michelle Waterson-Gomez20 sig landed
HEAD25%5 of 39BODY20%4 of 11LEGS55%11 of 17
Luana Pinheiro15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 29BODY27%4 of 6LEGS40%6 of 8
20 of 67
Sig.
strikes
15 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Eliseo Rodriguez9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michelle Waterson-Gomez19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 43BODY21%4 of 7LEGS32%6 of 12
Luana Pinheiro19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 34BODY26%5 of 7LEGS26%5 of 9
19 of 62
Sig.
strikes
19 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:47
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee9–10Eliseo Rodriguez9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michelle Waterson-Gomez22 sig landed
HEAD18%4 of 32BODY36%8 of 16LEGS45%10 of 11
Luana Pinheiro10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 16BODY60%6 of 8LEGS20%2 of 5
22 of 59
Sig.
strikes
10 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:01
Control
0:37
Distance 15Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9Eliseo Rodriguez10–9

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 · Larry Folsom
Michelle Waterson-GomezLuana Pinheiro
Official totals — Michelle Waterson-Gomez first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Eliseo Rodriguez28–29

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 — 17 scored, Michelle Waterson-Gomez first · unofficial

Jake Noecker BetQL28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Cody Merrow MMA Underground28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Scott Fontana New York Post29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Waterson-Gomez · 67%29-28 Pinheiro · 18%30-27 Waterson-Gomez · 13%30-27 Pinheiro · 2%

210 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.

Michelle Waterson-Gomez

1.39takedowns / 15 min
1.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.33 / 15m
4.21 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.30 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
37%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Luana Pinheiro

2.33takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Luana Pinheiro.

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