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Events · UFC 301: Pantoja vs. Erceg · Jose Aldo vs Jonathan Martinez
From the tape · 4 May 2024

Jose Aldo vs Jonathan Martinez

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

Jose Aldo beat Jonathan Martinez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightCo-MainReferee · Mike Beltran

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 JoseAldoNova Uniao · Manaus, Amazonas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JonathanMartinez“Dragon”Factory X · Plainview, Texas
Bantamweight3 rounds4 May 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Martinez.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
32-10
Record
19-6
37
Age
−7 yr30
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+720
UFC bouts
13
4/1331% of wins
Finishes
+9%4/1040% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
Factory X
Manaus, Amazonas
From
Plainview, Texas
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
Jose Aldo17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 30BODY35%6 of 10LEGS35%6 of 6
Jonathan Martinez15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 23BODY7%1 of 5LEGS40%6 of 6
17 of 46
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstBen Cartlidge10–9Rafael Ferreira10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jose Aldo30 sig landed
HEAD50%15 of 34BODY37%11 of 12LEGS13%4 of 4
Jonathan Martinez14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 35BODY14%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
30 of 50
Sig.
strikes
14 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:20
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstBen Cartlidge10–9Rafael Ferreira10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jose Aldo30 sig landed
HEAD70%21 of 32BODY30%9 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Jonathan Martinez23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 38BODY26%6 of 7LEGS4%1 of 1
30 of 43
Sig.
strikes
23 of 46
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:45
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Aldo firstBen Cartlidge10–9Rafael Ferreira10–9David Lethaby10–9

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 · Mike Beltran
Jose AldoJonathan Martinez
Official totals — Jose Aldo first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Rafael Ferreira30–27
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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 — 19 scored, Jose Aldo first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports30–27
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com30–27
Val Dewar Cageside Press30–27
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Christian Stein Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Aldo · 87%29-28 Aldo · 5%30-26 Aldo · 5%30-28 Aldo · 1%30-27 Martinez · 1%

117 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.

Jose Aldo

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.38 / 15m
0.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.09 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
35%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Jonathan Martinez

0.38takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Jose Aldo↓ −8.2pp
open 48.9%close 40.8%
Jonathan Martinez↑ +8.2pp
open 51.1%close 59.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jose Aldo opened at 48.9% and closed at 40.8% (−8.2pp), with Jonathan Martinez 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
Jose Aldo-10713448.9%40.8%−8.2pp
Jonathan Martinez-117-16451.1%59.2%+8.2pp
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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