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History · 2024 · UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill · Calvin Kattar vs Aljamain Sterling
From the tape · 13 Apr 2024

Calvin Kattar vs Aljamain Sterling

UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Aljamain Sterling beat Calvin Kattar

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

CK
Red corner CalvinKattarMethuen, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AljamainSterling“Funk Master”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Cortland, New York
Featherweight3 rounds13 Apr 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 6 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Kattar.
23-10
Record
26-5
36
Age
−2 yr34
+4″5' 11"
Height
5' 7"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+719
+17%4/757% of wins
Finishes
6/1540% of wins
Methuen, Massachusetts
From
Cortland, New York
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
Calvin Kattar6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 21BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Aljamain Sterling15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 20BODY20%3 of 4LEGS53%8 of 9
6 of 23
Sig.
strikes
15 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 7
0:00
Control
1:51
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Kattar firstBen Cartlidge9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Calvin Kattar2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Aljamain Sterling14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 9BODY50%7 of 8LEGS21%3 of 3
2 of 5
Sig.
strikes
14 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
4:10
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Kattar firstBen Cartlidge9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Calvin Kattar0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

Aljamain Sterling10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 11BODY50%5 of 5LEGS10%1 of 2
0 of 1
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:05
Control
4:42
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Kattar firstBen Cartlidge9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron 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 · Jason Herzog
Calvin KattarAljamain Sterling
Official totals — Calvin Kattar first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 24 scored, Calvin Kattar first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com26–30
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily27–30
Jake Noecker Cageside Press27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Andy Stevenson SevereMMA.com27–30
Nick Baldwin theScore27–30
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw27–30
Scott Fontana New York Post27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com27–30
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
James Mannino Sherdog.com27–30
Christian Stein Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Sterling · 72%30-26 Sterling · 20%30-25 Sterling · 3%30-24 Sterling · 2%29-28 Sterling · 2%

129 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.

Calvin Kattar

0.34takedowns / 15 min
0.34 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.54 / 15m
1.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.94 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
32%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Aljamain Sterling

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

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Calvin Kattar↓ −5.7pp
open 43.7%close 38.0%
Aljamain Sterling↑ +5.7pp
open 56.3%close 62.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Calvin Kattar opened at 43.7% and closed at 38.0% (−5.7pp), with Aljamain Sterling 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
Calvin Kattar12015243.7%38.0%−5.7pp
Aljamain Sterling-142-18456.3%62.0%+5.7pp
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% · dated 2024-04-14 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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