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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 · Stephanie Luciano vs Sam Hughes
From the tape · 15 Mar 2025

Stephanie Luciano vs Sam Hughes

UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Sam Hughes beat Stephanie Luciano

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain 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 StephanieLucianoBelo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SamHughes“Sampage”Fortis MMA · Davenport, Iowa
Women's Strawweight3 rounds15 Mar 2025
The story going in
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Hughes.
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Luciano.
8-2-1
Record
11-7
−7 yr25
Age
32
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
+1″65″
Reach
64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+89
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
From
Davenport, Iowa
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
Stephanie Luciano42 sig landed
HEAD50%21 of 76BODY31%13 of 19LEGS19%8 of 9
Sam Hughes35 sig landed
HEAD60%21 of 48BODY17%6 of 11LEGS23%8 of 9
42 of 104
Sig.
strikes
35 of 68
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:15
Control
0:47
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 41Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Luciano firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Stephanie Luciano18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 35BODY39%7 of 7LEGS11%2 of 2
Sam Hughes13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 24BODY8%1 of 1LEGS31%4 of 4
18 of 44
Sig.
strikes
13 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:19
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Luciano firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary8–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stephanie Luciano22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 91BODY14%3 of 8LEGS18%4 of 4
Sam Hughes28 sig landed
HEAD50%14 of 41BODY29%8 of 8LEGS21%6 of 6
22 of 103
Sig.
strikes
28 of 55
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 5
1:00
Control
0:15
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Luciano 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 · Mark Smith
Stephanie LucianoSam Hughes
Official totals — Stephanie Luciano first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 9 scored, Stephanie Luciano first · unofficial

Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Luciano · 46%29-28 Hughes · 13%29-27 Hughes · 8%30-27 Hughes · 4%

84 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.

Stephanie Luciano

1.30takedowns / 15 min
1.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.12 / 15m
1.83 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.86 / 15m
71%
ACCURACY
29%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Sam Hughes

1.12takedowns / 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

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.

Stephanie Luciano↓ −6.8pp
open 69.6%close 62.7%
Sam Hughes↑ +6.8pp
open 30.4%close 37.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stephanie Luciano opened at 69.6% and closed at 62.7% (−6.8pp), with Sam Hughes 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
Stephanie Luciano-265-19269.6%62.7%−6.8pp
Sam Hughes21515630.4%37.3%+6.8pp
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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