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History · 2024 · UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg · Alexandre Pantoja vs Steve Erceg
From the tape · 4 May 2024

Alexandre Pantoja vs Steve Erceg

UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Alexandre Pantoja beat Steve Erceg

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Flyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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 AlexandrePantoja“The Cannibal”American Top Team · Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SteveErcegWilkes Martial Arts · Myaree, Western Australia
Flyweight Title5 rounds4 May 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
30-6
Record
14-5
34
Age
−6 yr28
5' 5"
Height
+3″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+1″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1114
UFC bouts
3
+21%6/1155% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Wilkes Martial Arts
Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
From
Myaree, Western Australia
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Alexandre Pantoja30 sig landed
HEAD57%17 of 39BODY23%7 of 10LEGS20%6 of 6
Steve Erceg17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 29BODY12%2 of 3LEGS18%3 of 3
30 of 55
Sig.
strikes
17 of 35
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:00
Control
0:08
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pantoja firstFabio Alves10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alexandre Pantoja23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 39BODY22%5 of 6LEGS9%2 of 3
Steve Erceg28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 37BODY14%4 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
23 of 48
Sig.
strikes
28 of 43
3 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:25
Control
0:13
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pantoja firstFabio Alves9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Alexandre Pantoja34 sig landed
HEAD44%15 of 36BODY44%15 of 17LEGS12%4 of 4
Steve Erceg22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 38BODY18%4 of 6LEGS5%1 of 1
34 of 57
Sig.
strikes
22 of 45
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:53
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pantoja firstFabio Alves10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Alexandre Pantoja23 sig landed
HEAD78%18 of 49BODY9%2 of 2LEGS13%3 of 4
Steve Erceg31 sig landed
HEAD74%23 of 52BODY19%6 of 9LEGS6%2 of 2
23 of 55
Sig.
strikes
31 of 63
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:11
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pantoja firstFabio Alves9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alexandre Pantoja15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 21BODY27%4 of 4LEGS13%2 of 2
Steve Erceg13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS8%1 of 1
15 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:46
Control
0:11
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pantoja firstFabio Alves10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Alexandre PantojaSteve Erceg
Official totals — Alexandre Pantoja first
JudgeTotal
Fabio Alves2.3 avg spread · 39% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide49–46

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 — 25 scored, Alexandre Pantoja first · unofficial

Christian Stein Sherdog.com49–46
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks49–46
Nick Baldwin theScore48–47
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com48–47
Steve Duncan mma.uno48–47
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com48–47
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com48–47
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com48–47
Alex Behunin MMA Mania48–47
Val Dewar Cageside Press48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Jake Noecker Cageside Press48–47
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News48–47
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com48–47
John Pollock POST Wrestling48–47
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Combat Press.com48–47
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–47
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com47–48
Ben Davis46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Pantoja · 38%48-47 Erceg · 34%49-46 Pantoja · 14%49-46 Erceg · 10%

1,032 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.

Alexandre Pantoja

2.79takedowns / 15 min
2.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.13 / 15m
5.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.04 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
28%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Steve Erceg

1.13takedowns / 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

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.

Alexandre Pantoja↓ −5.8pp
open 68.5%close 62.7%
Steve Erceg↑ +5.8pp
open 31.5%close 37.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexandre Pantoja opened at 68.5% and closed at 62.7% (−5.8pp), with Steve Erceg 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
Alexandre Pantoja-250-19068.5%62.7%−5.8pp
Steve Erceg20515731.5%37.3%+5.8pp
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 2024-05-05 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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