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History · 2025 · UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes · Yair Rodriguez vs Patricio Freire
From the tape · 12 Apr 2025

Yair Rodriguez vs Patricio Freire

UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes · Miami, Florida, USA
Result

Yair Rodriguez beat Patricio Freire

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Andrew Glenn

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 YairRodriguez“El Pantera”Valle Flow Striking · Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua
VSOn the tape
PF
Blue corner PatricioFreire
Featherweight3 rounds12 Apr 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Rodriguez.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
21-6
Record
37-9
−5 yr32
Age
37
+5″5' 11"
Height
5' 6"
+4″71″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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
Yair Rodriguez11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 10BODY36%4 of 5LEGS36%4 of 6
Patricio Freire4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%4 of 4
11 of 21
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:35
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Eliseo Rodriguez10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Yair Rodriguez21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 28BODY29%6 of 9LEGS33%7 of 8
Patricio Freire8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 21BODY12%1 of 2LEGS25%2 of 3
21 of 45
Sig.
strikes
8 of 26
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:02
Control
0:28
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Eliseo Rodriguez10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Rodriguez1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Yair Rodriguez38 sig landed
HEAD71%27 of 44BODY21%8 of 9LEGS8%3 of 3
Patricio Freire5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 12BODY20%1 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
38 of 56
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:41
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 25
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Eliseo Rodriguez10–9

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 · Andrew Glenn
Yair RodriguezPatricio Freire
Official totals — Yair Rodriguez first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Eliseo Rodriguez30–27

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 — 16 scored, Yair Rodriguez first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Scott Fontana New York Post30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rodriguez · 72%30-26 Rodriguez · 17%29-28 Rodriguez · 7%29-28 Freire · 2%29-27 Rodriguez · 1%

111 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.

Yair Rodriguez

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.26 / 15m
2.45 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.82 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
33%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Patricio Freire

1.26takedowns / 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.

Yair Rodriguez→ no move
open 57.9%close 58.3%
Patricio Freire→ no move
open 42.1%close 41.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Yair Rodriguez opened at 57.9% and closed at 58.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Yair Rodriguez-157-15757.9%58.3%+0.4pp
Patricio Freire12512942.1%41.7%−0.4pp
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 2025-04-13 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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