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Events · UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Jesus Aguilar vs Mateus Mendonca
From the tape · 24 Feb 2024

Jesus Aguilar vs Mateus Mendonca

UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Result

Jesus Aguilar beat Mateus Mendonca

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Fernando Salas Navarro

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 JesusAguilarPro Fighting Peru · Pero
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MateusMendonca“Bocao”Chute Boxe Diego Lima · Pindare-Mirim, Maranhao
Flyweight3 rounds24 Feb 2024
The story going in
  • Carries 31 points more striking defence than Mendonca.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 1.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Aguilar.
12-4
Record
10-3
27
Age
−2 yr25
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
62″
Reach
+9″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
Pro Fighting Peru
Gym
Chute Boxe Diego Lima
Pero
From
Pindare-Mirim, Maranhao
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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
Jesus Aguilar7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 5BODY29%2 of 2LEGS43%3 of 4
Mateus Mendonca1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 11
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 5
2:51
Control
1:48
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aguilar firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón9–10Horacio Lopez10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jesus Aguilar6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 11BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
Mateus Mendonca13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 26BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 14
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:38
Control
2:56
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 7
Judges · this round · Aguilar firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Horacio Lopez10–9
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Jesus Aguilar6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 8BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
Mateus Mendonca4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 6BODY25%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
4 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:22
Control
4:00
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Aguilar firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Horacio Lopez9–10

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 · Fernando Salas Navarro
Jesus AguilarMateus Mendonca
Official totals — Jesus Aguilar first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Horacio Lopez29–28

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 — 11 scored, Jesus Aguilar first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Mendonca · 56%29-28 Aguilar · 21%30-27 Mendonca · 19%30-28 Mendonca · 1%

107 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.

Jesus Aguilar

1.52takedowns / 15 min
1.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.54 / 15m
5.24 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.41 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
27%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Mateus Mendonca

2.54takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Jesus Aguilar vs Mateus Mendonca.

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