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History · 2025 · UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2 · Jake Matthews vs Francisco Prado
From the tape · 8 Feb 2025

Jake Matthews vs Francisco Prado

UFC 312: Du Plessis vs. Strickland 2 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result

Jake Matthews beat Francisco Prado

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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 JakeMatthews“The Celtic Kid”Nexus · Epping, Victoria
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FranciscoPradoAmerican Top Team · San Lorenzo, Santa Fe
Welterweight3 rounds8 Feb 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 13 UFC wins.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 17 more than Prado.
23-8
Record
12-5
30
Age
−8 yr22
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+4″73″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1720
UFC bouts
3
7/1354% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Nexus
Gym
American Top Team
Epping, Victoria
From
San Lorenzo, Santa Fe
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
Jake Matthews20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 51BODY15%3 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Francisco Prado22 sig landed
HEAD23%5 of 34BODY41%9 of 12LEGS36%8 of 11
20 of 58
Sig.
strikes
22 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:33
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Matthews firstSal D'Amato10–9Charlie Keech10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jake Matthews22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 43BODY50%11 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
Francisco Prado18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 25BODY22%4 of 7LEGS50%9 of 9
22 of 57
Sig.
strikes
18 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
1:16
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Matthews firstSal D'Amato10–9Charlie Keech10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jake Matthews26 sig landed
HEAD42%11 of 52BODY38%10 of 12LEGS19%5 of 5
Francisco Prado19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 33BODY32%6 of 9LEGS32%6 of 6
26 of 69
Sig.
strikes
19 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:40
Control
0:27
Distance 20Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Matthews firstSal D'Amato10–9Charlie Keech10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Mike Beltran
Jake MatthewsFrancisco Prado
Official totals — Jake Matthews first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% 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 — 14 scored, Jake Matthews first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Matthews · 93%29-28 Matthews · 7%

30 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.

Jake Matthews

1.44takedowns / 15 min
1.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.76 / 15m
3.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
19%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Francisco Prado

0.76takedowns / 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.

Jake Matthews↑ +1.7pp
open 65.3%close 67.0%
Francisco Prado↓ −1.7pp
open 34.7%close 33.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jake Matthews opened at 65.3% and closed at 67.0% (+1.7pp), with Francisco Prado 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
Jake Matthews-225-23765.3%67.0%+1.7pp
Francisco Prado17218934.7%33.0%−1.7pp
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 2025-02-09 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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