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History · 2024 · UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier · Phil Rowe vs Jake Matthews
From the tape · 1 Jun 2024

Phil Rowe vs Jake Matthews

UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Jake Matthews beat Phil Rowe

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Vitor Ribeiro

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 PhilRowe“The Fresh Prince”Fusion X-Cel Performance · Queens, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JakeMatthews“The Celtic Kid”Nexus · Epping, Victoria
Welterweight3 rounds1 Jun 2024
The story going in
  • Every one of Rowe’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Rowe.
11-7
Record
23-8
33
Age
−4 yr29
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
+7″80″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+1419
+42%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
7/1258% of wins
Fusion X-Cel Performance
Gym
Nexus
Queens, New York
From
Epping, Victoria
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
Phil Rowe18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 39BODY6%1 of 1LEGS17%3 of 6
Jake Matthews30 sig landed
HEAD57%17 of 56BODY20%6 of 10LEGS23%7 of 7
18 of 46
Sig.
strikes
30 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:10
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Rowe firstJon Bilyk10–9Adrian Castro9–10Munah Querido10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Phil Rowe14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 47BODY0%0 of 2LEGS21%3 of 3
Jake Matthews34 sig landed
HEAD53%18 of 64BODY32%11 of 15LEGS15%5 of 5
14 of 52
Sig.
strikes
34 of 84
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rowe firstJon Bilyk9–10Adrian Castro9–10Munah Querido9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Phil Rowe2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jake Matthews2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 5BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:50
Control
2:54
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Rowe firstJon Bilyk9–10Adrian Castro9–10Munah Querido9–10

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 · Vitor Ribeiro
Phil RoweJake Matthews
Official totals — Phil Rowe first
JudgeTotal
Jon Bilyk28–29
Adrian Castro27–30
Munah Querido28–29

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 — 14 scored, Phil Rowe first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Val Dewar Cageside Press27–30
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Matthews · 61%29-28 Matthews · 39%

49 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.

Phil Rowe

0.46takedowns / 15 min
0.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
1.28 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.51 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
41%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Jake Matthews

1.44takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Phil Rowe↓ −0.6pp
open 40.7%close 40.1%
Jake Matthews↑ +0.6pp
open 59.3%close 59.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Phil Rowe opened at 40.7% and closed at 40.1% (−0.6pp), with Jake Matthews 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
Phil Rowe13613840.7%40.1%−0.6pp
Jake Matthews-162-16959.3%59.9%+0.6pp
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 2024-06-02 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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