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History · 2024 · UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. · Jose Aldo vs Mario Bautista
From the tape · 5 Oct 2024

Jose Aldo vs Mario Bautista

UFC 307: Pereira vs. Rountree Jr. · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Result

Mario Bautista beat Jose Aldo

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · 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 MarioBautistaMMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds5 Oct 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • 21 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Bautista.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
32-10
Record
18-3
38
Age
−7 yr31
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1121
UFC bouts
10
4/1429% of wins
Finishes
+21%4/850% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
MMA Lab
Manaus, Amazonas
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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 Aldo13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 21BODY8%1 of 1LEGS31%4 of 4
Mario Bautista20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 39BODY25%5 of 6LEGS35%7 of 8
13 of 26
Sig.
strikes
20 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
2:20
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jose Aldo21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 40BODY10%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Mario Bautista19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 46BODY11%2 of 5LEGS11%2 of 2
21 of 43
Sig.
strikes
19 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
2:14
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jose Aldo17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 44BODY18%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Mario Bautista10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 26BODY50%5 of 8LEGS20%2 of 2
17 of 48
Sig.
strikes
10 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
2:41
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Chris Lee10–9

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 · Mike Beltran
Jose AldoMario Bautista
Official totals — Jose Aldo first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 18 scored, Jose Aldo first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Val Dewar Cageside Press28–29
MM AFighting.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Drake Riggs Uncrowned29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Aldo · 77%29-28 Bautista · 13%30-27 Aldo · 7%30-27 Bautista · 0%

868 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
1.91 / 15m
0.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.03 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
38%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Mario Bautista

1.91takedowns / 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↑ +5.8pp
open 40.6%close 46.4%
Mario Bautista↓ −5.8pp
open 59.4%close 53.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jose Aldo opened at 40.6% and closed at 46.4% (+5.8pp), with Mario Bautista 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 Aldo13010540.6%46.4%+5.8pp
Mario Bautista-175-12959.4%53.6%−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 2024-10-06 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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