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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov · Thomas Petersen vs Jamal Pogues
From the tape · 3 Feb 2024

Thomas Petersen vs Jamal Pogues

UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jamal Pogues beat Thomas Petersen

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Eric McMahon

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 ThomasPetersen“The Train”Spartan MMA · Farmington, Minnesota
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JamalPoguesSyndicate MMA · Victorville, California
Heavyweight3 rounds3 Feb 2024
11-5
Record
11-5
28
Age
28
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
74″
Reach
+3″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Spartan MMA
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Farmington, Minnesota
From
Victorville, California
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
Thomas Petersen9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 13BODY44%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Jamal Pogues24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 30BODY21%5 of 10LEGS12%3 of 3
9 of 17
Sig.
strikes
24 of 43
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:41
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petersen firstMichael Bell9–10Chris Lee9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Thomas Petersen22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 23BODY32%7 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Jamal Pogues22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 27BODY27%6 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
22 of 32
Sig.
strikes
22 of 35
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petersen firstMichael Bell9–10Chris Lee9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Thomas Petersen27 sig landed
HEAD22%6 of 14BODY70%19 of 21LEGS7%2 of 2
Jamal Pogues19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 37BODY21%4 of 6LEGS16%3 of 3
27 of 37
Sig.
strikes
19 of 46
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Petersen firstMichael Bell10–9Chris Lee9–10Anthony Maness10–9

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 · Eric McMahon
Thomas PetersenJamal Pogues
Official totals — Thomas Petersen first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% 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 — 12 scored, Thomas Petersen first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com29–28
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pogues · 39%29-28 Petersen · 33%30-27 Pogues · 16%30-27 Petersen · 12%

64 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.

Thomas Petersen

3.01takedowns / 15 min
3.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.00 / 15m
7.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.35 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
46%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jamal Pogues

2.00takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Thomas Petersen↓ −7.7pp
open 68.8%close 61.0%
Jamal Pogues↑ +7.7pp
open 31.2%close 39.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thomas Petersen opened at 68.8% and closed at 61.0% (−7.7pp), with Jamal Pogues 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
Thomas Petersen-275-17568.8%61.0%−7.7pp
Jamal Pogues20014631.2%39.0%+7.7pp
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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