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Events · UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 · CJ Vergara vs Vinicius Salvador
From the tape · 29 Jul 2023

CJ Vergara vs Vinicius Salvador

UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Result

CJ Vergara beat Vinicius Salvador

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Dave Seljestad

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 CJVergara
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ViniciusSalvadorVarginha, Minas Gerais
Flyweight3 rounds29 Jul 2023
The story going in
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Salvador.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Vergara.
12-7-1
Record
14-7
32
Age
−5 yr27
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
68″
Reach
+2″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+34
UFC bouts
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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
CJ Vergara20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 14BODY50%10 of 13LEGS30%6 of 6
Vinicius Salvador20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 26BODY15%3 of 4LEGS45%9 of 10
20 of 33
Sig.
strikes
20 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vergara firstDerek Cleary9–10Steve Faragher9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
CJ Vergara45 sig landed
HEAD31%14 of 34BODY47%21 of 26LEGS22%10 of 11
Vinicius Salvador30 sig landed
HEAD63%19 of 50BODY20%6 of 9LEGS17%5 of 5
45 of 71
Sig.
strikes
30 of 64
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 41Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vergara firstDerek Cleary10–9Steve Faragher10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
CJ Vergara44 sig landed
HEAD57%25 of 54BODY32%14 of 18LEGS11%5 of 5
Vinicius Salvador38 sig landed
HEAD71%27 of 78BODY26%10 of 12LEGS3%1 of 1
44 of 77
Sig.
strikes
38 of 91
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 43Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vergara firstDerek Cleary10–9Steve Faragher10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Dave Seljestad
CJ VergaraVinicius Salvador
Official totals — CJ Vergara first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Steve Faragher29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 13 scored, CJ Vergara first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vergara · 90%30-27 Vergara · 4%29-28 Salvador · 4%30-28 Vergara · 2%

68 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.

CJ Vergara

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.36 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
3.27 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
11%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Vinicius Salvador

0.36takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

CJ Vergaraclose only
no opening line on recordclose 59.2%
Vinicius Salvadorclose only
no opening line on recordclose 40.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: CJ Vergara 59.2%, Vinicius Salvador 40.8%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
CJ Vergara-16459.2%
Vinicius Salvador15013440.8%
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% · dated 2023-07-30 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-06-10 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for C.J. Vergara, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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