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Events · UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic · David Onama vs Roberto Romero
From the tape · 16 Nov 2024

David Onama vs Roberto Romero

UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic · New York City, New York, USA
Result

David Onama beat Roberto Romero

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · 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 DavidOnamaFactory X · Kansas City, Missouri
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RobertoRomero“El Charro Negro”Team Oyama · Chihuahua, Chihuahua
Lightweight3 rounds16 Nov 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 19 points more takedown defence than Onama.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
14-3
Record
8-5-1
30
Age
−6 yr24
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+4″74″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Factory X
Gym
Team Oyama
Kansas City, Missouri
From
Chihuahua, Chihuahua
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⚡ 1 KD Onama⚡ 1 KD Romero1 sub attempt
David Onama44 sig landed
HEAD66%29 of 50BODY16%7 of 10LEGS18%8 of 9
Roberto Romero39 sig landed
HEAD36%14 of 38BODY15%6 of 11LEGS49%19 of 19
44 of 69
Sig.
strikes
39 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
1:14
1
Knock-
downs
1
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 8Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Onama firstChris Bolinski10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
David Onama36 sig landed
HEAD83%30 of 62BODY8%3 of 8LEGS8%3 of 4
Roberto Romero26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 43BODY19%5 of 7LEGS31%8 of 11
36 of 74
Sig.
strikes
26 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:26
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Onama firstChris Bolinski10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
David Onama41 sig landed
HEAD78%32 of 59BODY20%8 of 10LEGS2%1 of 1
Roberto Romero9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 16BODY33%3 of 3LEGS33%3 of 7
41 of 70
Sig.
strikes
9 of 26
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:42
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Onama firstChris Bolinski10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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
David OnamaRoberto Romero
Official totals — David Onama first
JudgeTotal
Chris Bolinski30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 13 scored, David Onama first · unofficial

Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com30–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Onama · 69%30-27 Onama · 27%30-28 Onama · 2%29-28 Romero · 2%

55 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.

David Onama

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
30%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Roberto Romero

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

David Onamaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 88.1%
Roberto Romeroclose only
no opening line on recordclose 11.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: David Onama 88.1%, Roberto Romero 11.9%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
David Onama-118788.1%
Roberto Romero60070611.9%
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 2024-11-17 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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for David Onama, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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