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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Matthew Semelsberger vs Preston Parsons
From the tape · 13 Jan 2024

Matthew Semelsberger vs Preston Parsons

UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Preston Parsons beat Matthew Semelsberger

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 MatthewSemelsberger“Semi The Jedi”Frederick, Maryland
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PrestonParsons“Pressure”Elevate MMA · Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds13 Jan 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Semelsberger.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
11-8
Record
11-6
31
Age
−3 yr28
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
+4″75″
Reach
71″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+69
UFC bouts
3
2/540% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Frederick, Maryland
From
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
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
Matthew Semelsberger11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 20BODY9%1 of 4LEGS45%5 of 5
Preston Parsons20 sig landed
HEAD25%5 of 19BODY35%7 of 8LEGS40%8 of 8
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
20 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:44
Control
0:21
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Semelsberger firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Matthew Semelsberger9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 18BODY22%2 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
Preston Parsons17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 22BODY12%2 of 3LEGS29%5 of 6
9 of 21
Sig.
strikes
17 of 31
1 of 2
Take-
downs
4 of 5
1:30
Control
2:24
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 8Ground 3
Judges · this round · Semelsberger firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Matthew Semelsberger8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 17BODY12%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Preston Parsons10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:54
Control
3:41
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Semelsberger firstMichael Bell9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Ron 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Matthew SemelsbergerPreston Parsons
Official totals — Matthew Semelsberger first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 12 scored, Matthew Semelsberger first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Bloody Elbow.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv27–30
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Parsons · 89%30-28 Parsons · 6%29-28 Semelsberger · 6%

18 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.

Matthew Semelsberger

1.01takedowns / 15 min
1.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.46 / 15m
1.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.61 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
36%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.30 / 15m

Preston Parsons

3.46takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Matthew Semelsberger↓ −3.9pp
open 54.4%close 50.4%
Preston Parsons↑ +3.9pp
open 45.6%close 49.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matthew Semelsberger opened at 54.4% and closed at 50.4% (−3.9pp), with Preston Parsons 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
Matthew Semelsberger-134-11454.4%50.4%−3.9pp
Preston Parsons108-11045.6%49.6%+3.9pp
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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