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Events · UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley · Josefine Knutsson vs Piera Rodriguez
From the tape · 14 Dec 2024

Josefine Knutsson vs Piera Rodriguez

UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Buckley · Tampa, Florida, USA
Result

Piera Rodriguez beat Josefine Knutsson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 JosefineKnutsson“Thunder”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PieraRodriguez“La Fiera”Black House MMA · Maracaibo, Zulia
Women's Strawweight3 rounds14 Dec 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 46 points more takedown defence than Knutsson.
8-1
Record
12-2
−4 yr28
Age
32
5' 3"
Height
5' 3"
60″
Reach
+3″63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+24
0/20% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
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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
Josefine Knutsson18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 24BODY28%5 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
Piera Rodriguez19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 26BODY16%3 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
18 of 30
Sig.
strikes
19 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 5
0:20
Control
3:40
Distance 7Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 7
Judges · this round · Knutsson firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Grenier9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Josefine Knutsson6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 16BODY33%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Piera Rodriguez12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 12BODY42%5 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
6 of 19
Sig.
strikes
12 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:57
Control
2:39
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · Knutsson firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Grenier9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josefine Knutsson2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY50%1 of 1LEGS50%1 of 2
Piera Rodriguez5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 1
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:05
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Knutsson firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Jason Grenier9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Josefine KnutssonPiera Rodriguez
Official totals — Josefine Knutsson first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Jason Grenier27–30

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 — 11 scored, Josefine Knutsson first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated27–30
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rodriguez · 86%29-28 Rodriguez · 9%29-27 Rodriguez · 4%

22 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.

Josefine Knutsson

1.60takedowns / 15 min
1.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.04 / 15m
2.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.08 / 15m
72%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Piera Rodriguez

4.04takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Josefine Knutsson vs Piera Rodriguez.

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