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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza · Christian Rodriguez vs Cameron Saaiman
From the tape · 14 Oct 2023

Christian Rodriguez vs Cameron Saaiman

UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Christian Rodriguez beat Cameron Saaiman

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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 ChristianRodriguezRoufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CameronSaaiman“MSP”Team CIT · Pretoria
Bantamweight3 rounds14 Oct 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Saaiman.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
13-4
Record
9-3
25
Age
−3 yr22
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
+4″71″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
3
UFC bouts
3
1/250% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Roufusport
Gym
Team CIT
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Pretoria
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 action1 sub attempt
Christian Rodriguez22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 42BODY36%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Cameron Saaiman27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 44BODY26%7 of 9LEGS30%8 of 16
22 of 50
Sig.
strikes
27 of 69
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:36
Control
0:16
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Christian Rodriguez19 sig landed
HEAD89%17 of 25BODY11%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Cameron Saaiman8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 12BODY12%1 of 2LEGS38%3 of 5
19 of 27
Sig.
strikes
8 of 19
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:25
Control
1:04
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Christian Rodriguez42 sig landed
HEAD79%33 of 74BODY19%8 of 9LEGS2%1 of 1
Cameron Saaiman38 sig landed
HEAD58%22 of 65BODY16%6 of 10LEGS26%10 of 12
42 of 84
Sig.
strikes
38 of 87
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:11
Control
0:06
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 35Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Christian RodriguezCameron Saaiman
Official totals — Christian Rodriguez first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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 — 12 scored, Christian Rodriguez first · unofficial

MM AMania.com30–27
Alex Behunin MMA Mania30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
J. L. Kirven Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rodriguez · 43%29-28 Saaiman · 31%29-28 Rodriguez · 25%30-28 Rodriguez · 2%

65 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.

Christian Rodriguez

1.75takedowns / 15 min
1.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.89 / 15m
4.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.18 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
28%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Cameron Saaiman

0.89takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Christian Rodriguez↓ −3.4pp
open 57.7%close 54.3%
Cameron Saaiman↑ +3.4pp
open 42.3%close 45.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Christian Rodriguez opened at 57.7% and closed at 54.3% (−3.4pp), with Cameron Saaiman 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
Christian Rodriguez-163-13357.7%54.3%−3.4pp
Cameron Saaiman12010842.3%45.7%+3.4pp
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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