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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Pavlovich vs. Blaydes · Jeremiah Wells vs Matthew Semelsberger
From the tape · 22 Apr 2023

Jeremiah Wells vs Matthew Semelsberger

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

Jeremiah Wells beat Matthew Semelsberger

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 JeremiahWellsWest Hazleton, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MatthewSemelsberger“Semi The Jedi”Frederick, Maryland
Welterweight3 rounds22 Apr 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Wells’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Wells.
14-4-1
Record
11-8
36
Age
−6 yr30
5' 9"
Height
+4″6' 1"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Switch
Stance
Switch
3
UFC bouts
+47
+60%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
West Hazleton, Pennsylvania
From
Frederick, Maryland
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⚡ 1 KD Semelsberger
Jeremiah Wells17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 34BODY18%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Matthew Semelsberger11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 17BODY9%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 38
Sig.
strikes
11 of 18
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:31
Control
0:59
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Wells firstEric Colón10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Semelsberger
Jeremiah Wells16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 31BODY6%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Matthew Semelsberger6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 11BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 33
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:09
Control
0:30
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Wells firstEric Colón10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Rick Winter9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jeremiah Wells3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY100%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Matthew Semelsberger3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 5
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:32
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wells firstEric Colón10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Rick Winter10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Jeremiah WellsMatthew Semelsberger
Official totals — Jeremiah Wells first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% 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 — 16 scored, Jeremiah Wells first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com30–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Semelsberger · 63%29-28 Wells · 20%30-27 Wells · 10%29-27 Semelsberger · 2%30-27 Semelsberger · 2%

205 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.

Jeremiah Wells

3.06takedowns / 15 min
3.06 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.01 / 15m
6.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.77 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
57%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Matthew Semelsberger

1.01takedowns / 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.

Jeremiah Wells↓ −9.1pp
open 56.2%close 47.1%
Matthew Semelsberger↑ +9.1pp
open 43.8%close 52.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jeremiah Wells opened at 56.2% and closed at 47.1% (−9.1pp), with Matthew Semelsberger 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
Jeremiah Wells-14010256.2%47.1%−9.1pp
Matthew Semelsberger120-12543.8%52.9%+9.1pp
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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