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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo · Jeremy Stephens vs Mason Jones
From the tape · 3 May 2025

Jeremy Stephens vs Mason Jones

UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo · Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Result

Mason Jones beat Jeremy Stephens

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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 JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MasonJones“Dragon”Pedro Bessa BJJ · Blaenavon
Lightweight3 rounds3 May 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 2.9 more significant strikes a minute than Stephens.
  • Has finished 8 of 15 UFC wins.
29-23
Record
18-3
38
Age
−8 yr30
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
71″
Reach
+3″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+3034
UFC bouts
4
8/1553% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Pedro Bessa BJJ
Des Moines, Iowa
From
Blaenavon
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
Jeremy Stephens21 sig landed
HEAD29%6 of 28BODY14%3 of 6LEGS57%12 of 13
Mason Jones39 sig landed
HEAD56%22 of 80BODY23%9 of 13LEGS21%8 of 10
21 of 47
Sig.
strikes
39 of 103
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
0:43
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stephens firstMichael Bell9–10Bruce Huckfeldt9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jeremy Stephens19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 47BODY21%4 of 5LEGS16%3 of 3
Mason Jones37 sig landed
HEAD68%25 of 98BODY24%9 of 13LEGS8%3 of 4
19 of 55
Sig.
strikes
37 of 115
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:11
Control
0:45
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stephens firstMichael Bell9–10Bruce Huckfeldt9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jeremy Stephens2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 2
Mason Jones5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 10BODY20%1 of 2LEGS20%1 of 1
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
5 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
5 of 8
0:00
Control
4:35
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Stephens firstMichael Bell9–10Bruce Huckfeldt9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Mike Beltran
Jeremy StephensMason Jones
Official totals — Jeremy Stephens first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Bruce Huckfeldt27–30
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide27–30

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 — 11 scored, Jeremy Stephens first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Jake Noecker Home of Fight27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Jones · 83%30-27 Stephens · 7%29-28 Jones · 3%30-25 Jones · 3%30-26 Jones · 3%

29 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.

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 15 min
1.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.48 / 15m
2.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.33 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
55%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Mason Jones

3.48takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Jeremy Stephens↓ −4.1pp
open 21.8%close 17.7%
Mason Jones↑ +4.1pp
open 78.2%close 82.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jeremy Stephens opened at 21.8% and closed at 17.7% (−4.1pp), with Mason Jones 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
Jeremy Stephens34044121.8%17.7%−4.1pp
Mason Jones-440-60678.2%82.3%+4.1pp
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 2025-05-04 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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