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Events · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier · Zac Pauga vs Modestas Bukauskas
From the tape · 17 Jun 2023

Zac Pauga vs Modestas Bukauskas

UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Modestas Bukauskas beat Zac Pauga

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 ZacPauga“The High Chief”Elevation Fight Team · Denver, Colorado
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ModestasBukauskas“The Baltic Gladiator”Klaipeda
Light Heavyweight3 rounds17 Jun 2023
7-3
Record
20-7
35
Age
−6 yr29
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
76″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
2
UFC bouts
+35
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Denver, Colorado
From
Klaipeda
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
Zac Pauga15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 23BODY13%2 of 4LEGS13%2 of 2
Modestas Bukauskas13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 25BODY15%2 of 2LEGS15%2 of 2
15 of 29
Sig.
strikes
13 of 29
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:04
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pauga firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Zac Pauga27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 33BODY37%10 of 12LEGS11%3 of 3
Modestas Bukauskas23 sig landed
HEAD78%18 of 35BODY13%3 of 3LEGS9%2 of 2
27 of 48
Sig.
strikes
23 of 40
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:10
Control
0:01
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pauga firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Anthony Maness9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Zac Pauga25 sig landed
HEAD40%10 of 24BODY52%13 of 14LEGS8%2 of 2
Modestas Bukauskas20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 36BODY25%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 40
Sig.
strikes
20 of 43
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
1:19
Distance 21Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pauga firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Anthony Maness9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Zac PaugaModestas Bukauskas
Official totals — Zac Pauga first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide27–30

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 — 13 scored, Zac Pauga first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pauga · 48%29-28 Bukauskas · 40%30-27 Pauga · 9%30-27 Bukauskas · 3%

101 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.

Zac Pauga

0.38takedowns / 15 min
0.38 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.23 / 15m
5.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.35 / 15m
7%
ACCURACY
66%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Modestas Bukauskas

0.23takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Zac Pauga↓ −4.2pp
open 40.6%close 36.4%
Modestas Bukauskas↑ +4.2pp
open 59.4%close 63.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Zac Pauga opened at 40.6% and closed at 36.4% (−4.2pp), with Modestas Bukauskas 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
Zac Pauga13016240.6%36.4%−4.2pp
Modestas Bukauskas-175-20059.4%63.6%+4.2pp
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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