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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes · Francis Marshall vs William Gomis
From the tape · 22 Apr 2023

Francis Marshall vs William Gomis

UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

William Gomis beat Francis Marshall

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 FrancisMarshall“Fire”American Top Team · Jersey City, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
Blue corner WilliamGomis“Jaguar”MMA Factory · Paris
Featherweight3 rounds22 Apr 2023
The story going in
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Gomis.
  • Is 14 points more accurate striking than Marshall.
10-3
Record
15-4
−1 yr24
Age
25
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
1
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
MMA Factory
Jersey City, New Jersey
From
Paris
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
Francis Marshall5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 46BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
William Gomis5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 14BODY80%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 47
Sig.
strikes
5 of 20
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:16
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marshall firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Francis Marshall6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 51BODY33%2 of 4LEGS17%1 of 1
William Gomis12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 19BODY33%4 of 10LEGS33%4 of 5
6 of 56
Sig.
strikes
12 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:17
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marshall firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Ben Cartlidge10–9Eric Colón9–10
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Francis Marshall4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 26BODY25%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
William Gomis10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS90%9 of 10
4 of 29
Sig.
strikes
10 of 25
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:53
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marshall firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Eric Colón10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Francis MarshallWilliam Gomis
Official totals — Francis Marshall first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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 — 13 scored, Francis Marshall first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Gomis · 47%29-28 Marshall · 34%30-27 Marshall · 5%30-26 Marshall · 1%

83 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.

Francis Marshall

2.71takedowns / 15 min
2.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.73 / 15m
5.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.92 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
38%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

William Gomis

0.73takedowns / 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.

Francis Marshall↓ −13.4pp
open 77.5%close 64.1%
William Gomis↑ +13.4pp
open 22.5%close 35.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Francis Marshall opened at 77.5% and closed at 64.1% (−13.4pp), with William Gomis 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
Francis Marshall-400-20077.5%64.1%−13.4pp
William Gomis33016822.5%35.9%+13.4pp
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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