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Events · UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song · Rob Font vs Jean Matsumoto
From the tape · 22 Feb 2025

Rob Font vs Jean Matsumoto

UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song · Seattle, Washington, USA
Result

Rob Font beat Jean Matsumoto

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Catch WeightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 RobFontNew England Cartel · Boston, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JeanMatsumotoInside MMA · Braganca Paulista, Sao Paulo
Catch Weight3 rounds22 Feb 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 18 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Matsumoto.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Font.
22-10
Record
18-2
37
Age
−12 yr25
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1618
UFC bouts
2
7/1164% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
New England Cartel
Gym
Inside MMA
Boston, Massachusetts
From
Braganca Paulista, Sao Paulo
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
Rob Font21 sig landed
HEAD95%20 of 33BODY5%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jean Matsumoto7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 12BODY43%3 of 3LEGS43%3 of 4
21 of 34
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:26
Control
3:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Rob Font34 sig landed
HEAD82%28 of 50BODY18%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Jean Matsumoto29 sig landed
HEAD55%16 of 43BODY10%3 of 4LEGS34%10 of 14
34 of 56
Sig.
strikes
29 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
5 of 5
0:00
Control
2:05
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rob Font40 sig landed
HEAD85%34 of 74BODY15%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Jean Matsumoto41 sig landed
HEAD63%26 of 80BODY7%3 of 6LEGS29%12 of 15
40 of 81
Sig.
strikes
41 of 101
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:52
Control
0:30
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Rob FontJean Matsumoto
Official totals — Rob Font first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 12 scored, Rob Font first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Matsumoto · 70%29-28 Font · 26%30-27 Font · 2%30-27 Matsumoto · 1%

278 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.

Rob Font

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.00 / 15m
2.41 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.25 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
48%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Jean Matsumoto

3.00takedowns / 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 (5.45 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.

Rob Font↓ −2.1pp
open 40.6%close 38.5%
Jean Matsumoto↑ +2.1pp
open 59.4%close 61.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rob Font opened at 40.6% and closed at 38.5% (−2.1pp), with Jean Matsumoto 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
Rob Font13014840.6%38.5%−2.1pp
Jean Matsumoto-175-18259.4%61.5%+2.1pp
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 2025-02-23 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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