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Events · UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez · Jonathan Pearce vs David Onama
From the tape · 27 Apr 2024

Jonathan Pearce vs David Onama

UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

David Onama beat Jonathan Pearce

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 JonathanPearce“JSP”Fight Ready · Johnson City, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DavidOnamaFactory X · Kansas City, Missouri
Featherweight3 rounds27 Apr 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Onama’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Averages 4.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Onama.
14-7
Record
14-3
31
Age
−2 yr29
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
71″
Reach
+3″74″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+27
UFC bouts
5
3/560% of wins
Finishes
+40%3/3100% of wins
Fight Ready
Gym
Factory X
Johnson City, Tennessee
From
Kansas City, 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
Jonathan Pearce15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 28BODY40%6 of 9LEGS20%3 of 4
David Onama14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 20BODY7%1 of 1LEGS14%2 of 2
15 of 41
Sig.
strikes
14 of 23
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:50
Control
0:49
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearce firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jerin Valel9–10
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Jonathan Pearce14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 13BODY14%2 of 3LEGS14%2 of 2
David Onama5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 8BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 18
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:16
Control
0:36
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearce firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jerin Valel10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jonathan Pearce28 sig landed
HEAD75%21 of 61BODY18%5 of 7LEGS7%2 of 2
David Onama39 sig landed
HEAD90%35 of 66BODY10%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
28 of 70
Sig.
strikes
39 of 71
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:43
Control
0:50
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearce firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jerin Valel9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Jonathan PearceDavid Onama
Official totals — Jonathan Pearce first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Jerin Valel28–29

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, Jonathan Pearce first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Onama · 64%29-28 Pearce · 24%29-27 Onama · 4%30-27 Pearce · 4%

53 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.

Jonathan Pearce

5.02takedowns / 15 min
5.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.05 / 15m
10.04 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.50 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
30%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

David Onama

1.05takedowns / 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.

Jonathan Pearceclose only
no opening line on recordclose 58.9%
David Onamaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 41.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Jonathan Pearce 58.9%, David Onama 41.1%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Jonathan Pearce-170-16258.9%
David Onama13241.1%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for David Onama, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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