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Events · UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley · Andre Petroski vs Gerald Meerschaert
From the tape · 19 Aug 2023

Andre Petroski vs Gerald Meerschaert

UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Andre Petroski beat Gerald Meerschaert

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 AndrePetroskiRenzo Gracie Philly · Springfield, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GeraldMeerschaert“GM3”Kill Cliff FC · Racine, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds19 Aug 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Meerschaert’s 10 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 18 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Petroski.
13-6
Record
37-22
−3 yr32
Age
35
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+4″77″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+1418
3/475% of wins
Finishes
+25%10/10100% of wins
Renzo Gracie Philly
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Springfield, Pennsylvania
From
Racine, Wisconsin
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
Andre Petroski13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 39BODY8%1 of 1LEGS15%2 of 2
Gerald Meerschaert11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS27%3 of 3
13 of 42
Sig.
strikes
11 of 30
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petroski firstSal D'Amato9–10Steve Rita10–9Marcel Varela10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Petroski
Andre Petroski29 sig landed
HEAD69%20 of 52BODY17%5 of 5LEGS14%4 of 4
Gerald Meerschaert23 sig landed
HEAD78%18 of 47BODY13%3 of 5LEGS9%2 of 2
29 of 61
Sig.
strikes
23 of 54
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:36
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petroski firstSal D'Amato10–9Steve Rita10–9Marcel Varela10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Andre Petroski15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 23BODY40%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Gerald Meerschaert42 sig landed
HEAD93%39 of 61BODY7%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 29
Sig.
strikes
42 of 65
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:07
Control
1:54
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 9Ground 6
Judges · this round · Petroski firstSal D'Amato9–10Steve Rita9–10Marcel Varela9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Andre PetroskiGerald Meerschaert
Official totals — Andre Petroski first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Steve Rita29–28
Marcel Varela29–28

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 — 15 scored, Andre Petroski first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
MM AMania.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Meerschaert · 46%29-28 Petroski · 46%29-27 Petroski · 2%30-27 Petroski · 1%

111 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.

Andre Petroski

3.13takedowns / 15 min
3.13 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.70 / 15m
6.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.86 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
29%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Gerald Meerschaert

1.70takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Andre Petroskiclose only
no opening line on recordclose 67.3%
Gerald Meerschaertclose only
no opening line on recordclose 32.7%
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: Andre Petroski 67.3%, Gerald Meerschaert 32.7%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Andre Petroski-23767.3%
Gerald Meerschaert23019232.7%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Andre Petroski, 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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