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History · 2023 · UFC 291: Poirier vs. Gaethje 2 · Jan Blachowicz vs Alex Pereira
From the tape · 29 Jul 2023

Jan Blachowicz vs Alex Pereira

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

Alex Pereira beat Jan Blachowicz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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 JanBlachowiczWCA Fight Team · Cieszyn
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexPereira“Poatan”Teixeira MMA & Fitness · Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo
Light Heavyweight3 rounds29 Jul 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Pereira.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Blachowicz.
29-12-2
Record
13-4
40
Age
−4 yr36
6' 2"
Height
+2″6' 4"
78″
Reach
+1″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1419
UFC bouts
5
7/1258% of wins
Finishes
+17%3/475% of wins
WCA Fight Team
Gym
Teixeira MMA & Fitness
Cieszyn
From
Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo
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 action3 sub attempts
Jan Blachowicz6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Alex Pereira2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
6 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:50
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blachowicz firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jan Blachowicz20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 21BODY10%2 of 5LEGS15%3 of 3
Alex Pereira33 sig landed
HEAD39%13 of 25BODY30%10 of 11LEGS30%10 of 11
20 of 29
Sig.
strikes
33 of 47
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:57
Control
0:06
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Blachowicz firstDerek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jan Blachowicz26 sig landed
HEAD77%20 of 39BODY8%2 of 3LEGS15%4 of 4
Alex Pereira35 sig landed
HEAD34%12 of 19BODY37%13 of 13LEGS29%10 of 10
26 of 46
Sig.
strikes
35 of 42
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:45
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blachowicz firstDerek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Jan BlachowiczAlex Pereira
Official totals — Jan Blachowicz first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 26 scored, Jan Blachowicz first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Scott Fontana New York Post28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
E. Casey Leydon28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pereira · 58%29-28 Blachowicz · 32%30-27 Blachowicz · 2%

2,506 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.

Jan Blachowicz

0.98takedowns / 15 min
0.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.11 / 15m
2.04 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.22 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
50%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Alex Pereira

0.11takedowns / 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

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.

Jan Blachowicz vs Alex Pereira.

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