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History · 2024 · UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis · Charles Jourdain vs Sean Woodson
From the tape · 20 Jan 2024

Charles Jourdain vs Sean Woodson

UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Sean Woodson beat Charles Jourdain

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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 CharlesJourdain“Air”Academie Pro Star MMA · Beloeil, Quebec
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SeanWoodson“The Sniper”Wolves' Den Training Center · St. Louis, Missouri
Featherweight3 rounds20 Jan 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 38 points more takedown defence than Jourdain.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
18-8-1
Record
14-2-1
−3 yr28
Age
31
5' 9"
Height
+5″6' 2"
69″
Reach
+9″78″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+612
UFC bouts
6
+42%4/667% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Academie Pro Star MMA
Gym
Wolves' Den Training Center
Beloeil, Quebec
From
St. Louis, Missouri
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
Charles Jourdain18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 35BODY6%1 of 2LEGS67%12 of 14
Sean Woodson31 sig landed
HEAD61%19 of 60BODY19%6 of 6LEGS19%6 of 6
18 of 51
Sig.
strikes
31 of 72
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jourdain firstDerek Cleary9–10Patricia VanderMeer10–9Declan Woods10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Charles Jourdain22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 29BODY41%9 of 11LEGS23%5 of 6
Sean Woodson28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 44BODY4%1 of 2LEGS14%4 of 5
22 of 46
Sig.
strikes
28 of 51
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:08
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jourdain firstDerek Cleary9–10Patricia VanderMeer10–9Declan Woods9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Charles Jourdain20 sig landed
HEAD30%6 of 34BODY50%10 of 19LEGS20%4 of 6
Sean Woodson21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 39BODY14%3 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
20 of 59
Sig.
strikes
21 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:45
Control
0:39
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Jourdain firstDerek Cleary10–9Patricia VanderMeer9–10Declan Woods9–10

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 · Jerin Valel
Charles JourdainSean Woodson
Official totals — Charles Jourdain first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Patricia VanderMeer29–28
Declan Woods28–29

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 — 14 scored, Charles Jourdain first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Woodson · 41%30-27 Woodson · 32%29-28 Jourdain · 22%30-27 Jourdain · 4%

134 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.

Charles Jourdain

0.38takedowns / 15 min
0.38 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.58 / 15m
1.81 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.05 / 15m
21%
ACCURACY
55%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Sean Woodson

0.58takedowns / 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.

Charles Jourdain↑ +17.4pp
open 46.8%close 64.2%
Sean Woodson↓ −17.4pp
open 53.2%close 35.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Charles Jourdain opened at 46.8% and closed at 64.2% (+17.4pp), with Sean Woodson 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
Charles Jourdain105-20446.8%64.2%+17.4pp
Sean Woodson-12516753.2%35.8%−17.4pp
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% · dated 2024-01-21 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. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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