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Events · UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues · Vince Morales vs Elijah Smith
From the tape · 15 Feb 2025

Vince Morales vs Elijah Smith

UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Elijah Smith beat Vince Morales

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 VinceMorales“Vandetta”Syndicate MMA · Caldwell, Idaho
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ElijahSmith“Swift”Team Victory · Colorado Springs, Colorado
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Feb 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Morales.
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Smith.
16-11
Record
10-1
34
Age
−12 yr22
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Syndicate MMA
Gym
Team Victory
Caldwell, Idaho
From
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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
Vince Morales19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 33BODY21%4 of 5LEGS11%2 of 2
Elijah Smith19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 33BODY5%1 of 2LEGS26%5 of 8
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
19 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:17
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action3 sub attempts
Vince Morales4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Elijah Smith1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 5
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
2 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:02
Control
2:08
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Vince Morales17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 36BODY24%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Elijah Smith20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 43BODY5%1 of 1LEGS20%4 of 5
17 of 41
Sig.
strikes
20 of 49
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:05
Control
0:28
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Vince MoralesElijah Smith
Official totals — Vince Morales first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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 — 10 scored, Vince Morales first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Smith · 53%29-28 Morales · 38%30-27 Morales · 6%

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.

Vince Morales

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.98 / 15m
1.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.62 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
53%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Elijah Smith

2.98takedowns / 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.

Vince Morales↑ +15.7pp
open 33.1%close 48.8%
Elijah Smith↓ −15.7pp
open 66.9%close 51.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Vince Morales opened at 33.1% and closed at 48.8% (+15.7pp), with Elijah Smith 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
Vince Morales190-10433.1%48.8%+15.7pp
Elijah Smith-230-11566.9%51.2%−15.7pp
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% · 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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