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Events · UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev · Mairon Santos vs Francis Marshall
From the tape · 8 Mar 2025

Mairon Santos vs Francis Marshall

UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Mairon Santos beat Francis Marshall

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 MaironSantos“The Legend”Xtreme Couture · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FrancisMarshall“Fire”American Top Team · Jersey City, New Jersey
Featherweight3 rounds8 Mar 2025
The story going in
  • Is 14 points more accurate striking than Marshall.
  • Averages 2.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Santos.
18-1
Record
10-3
−2 yr24
Age
26
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
American Top Team
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
From
Jersey City, New Jersey
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
Mairon Santos18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 21BODY22%4 of 10LEGS50%9 of 11
Francis Marshall16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 39BODY6%1 of 1LEGS31%5 of 5
18 of 42
Sig.
strikes
16 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:02
Control
0:35
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Mairon Santos19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 23BODY21%4 of 7LEGS26%5 of 6
Francis Marshall8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 40BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
19 of 36
Sig.
strikes
8 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
1:22
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mairon Santos21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 36BODY29%6 of 13LEGS5%1 of 2
Francis Marshall15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 57BODY0%0 landedLEGS7%1 of 1
21 of 51
Sig.
strikes
15 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:38
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee10–9David Lethaby10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Mairon SantosFrancis Marshall
Official totals — Mairon Santos first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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, Mairon Santos first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Jake Noecker Home of Fight27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Mathis Desjardins Cageside Press27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Marshall · 62%29-28 Marshall · 23%29-28 Santos · 12%30-27 Santos · 1%

368 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.

Mairon Santos

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.71 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
5.77 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
47%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Francis Marshall

2.71takedowns / 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.

Mairon Santos↓ −7.5pp
open 75.4%close 67.9%
Francis Marshall↑ +7.5pp
open 24.6%close 32.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mairon Santos opened at 75.4% and closed at 67.9% (−7.5pp), with Francis Marshall 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
Mairon Santos-370-24875.4%67.9%−7.5pp
Francis Marshall29019724.6%32.1%+7.5pp
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 2025-03-09 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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