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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento · Tabatha Ricci vs Tecia Pennington
From the tape · 11 May 2024

Tabatha Ricci vs Tecia Pennington

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Nascimento · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Result

Tabatha Ricci beat Tecia Pennington

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Nick Berens

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 TabathaRicci“Baby Shark”Brazilian Thai · Aracatuba, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TeciaPenningtonAmerican Top Team · Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Women's Strawweight3 rounds11 May 2024
The story going in
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Pennington.
  • Has finished 2 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Ricci.
12-5
Record
15-8
−5 yr29
Age
34
5' 1"
Height
5' 1"
+1″61″
Reach
60″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+915
+3%1/425% of wins
Finishes
2/922% of wins
Brazilian Thai
Gym
American Top Team
Aracatuba, Sao Paulo
From
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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
Tabatha Ricci25 sig landed
HEAD48%12 of 52BODY20%5 of 11LEGS32%8 of 13
Tecia Pennington42 sig landed
HEAD76%32 of 93BODY10%4 of 8LEGS14%6 of 6
25 of 76
Sig.
strikes
42 of 107
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ricci firstRob Francis9–10Chris Lee9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tabatha Ricci10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 22BODY10%1 of 2LEGS20%2 of 3
Tecia Pennington15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 41BODY0%0 of 1LEGS27%4 of 5
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
15 of 47
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:01
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ricci firstRob Francis9–10Chris Lee10–9Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tabatha Ricci19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 31BODY16%3 of 6LEGS16%3 of 3
Tecia Pennington23 sig landed
HEAD91%21 of 60BODY9%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
23 of 65
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:07
Control
0:04
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ricci firstRob Francis10–9Chris Lee10–9Brian Puccillo10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Nick Berens
Tabatha RicciTecia Pennington
Official totals — Tabatha Ricci first
JudgeTotal
Rob Francis28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide29–28

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 — 13 scored, Tabatha Ricci first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated28–29
Tim Wheaton CombatPress.com28–29
MM AUncensored.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pennington · 37%30-27 Pennington · 33%29-28 Ricci · 24%30-27 Ricci · 2%30-28 Ricci · 1%

119 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.

Tabatha Ricci

2.51takedowns / 15 min
2.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
6.78 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
14%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Tecia Pennington

0.56takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Tabatha Ricci↑ +0.9pp
open 56.6%close 57.4%
Tecia Pennington↓ −0.9pp
open 43.4%close 42.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tabatha Ricci opened at 56.6% and closed at 57.4% (+0.9pp), with Tecia Pennington 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
Tabatha Ricci-142-15056.6%57.4%+0.9pp
Tecia Pennington12212543.4%42.6%−0.9pp
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. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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