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Events · UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Figueiredo · Montel Jackson vs Daniel Marcos
From the tape · 3 May 2025

Montel Jackson vs Daniel Marcos

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

Montel Jackson beat Daniel Marcos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Gary Copeland

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 MontelJackson“Quik”Red Schafer MMA · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DanielMarcos“Soncora”Los Perros Sarnosos · San Miguel, Lima
Bantamweight3 rounds3 May 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Jackson.
15-4
Record
18-1
33
Age
−1 yr32
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+6″75″
Reach
69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+510
UFC bouts
5
+25%4/850% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Red Schafer MMA
Gym
Los Perros Sarnosos
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
San Miguel, Lima
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
Montel Jackson4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 8BODY25%1 of 2LEGS25%1 of 2
Daniel Marcos4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 4BODY25%1 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
4 of 12
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:07
Control
1:26
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jackson firstDerek Cleary10–9Bruce Huckfeldt10–9Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Montel Jackson15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%3 of 3
Daniel Marcos7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 5BODY29%2 of 3LEGS57%4 of 4
15 of 28
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:26
Control
1:55
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Jackson firstDerek Cleary10–9Bruce Huckfeldt10–9Brian Puccillo10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Montel Jackson11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 25BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Daniel Marcos6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 9BODY33%2 of 2LEGS33%2 of 2
11 of 26
Sig.
strikes
6 of 13
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:04
Control
2:24
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jackson firstDerek Cleary10–9Bruce Huckfeldt10–9Brian Puccillo10–9

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 · Gary Copeland
Montel JacksonDaniel Marcos
Official totals — Montel Jackson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Bruce Huckfeldt30–27
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide30–27

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 — 12 scored, Montel Jackson first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Jackson · 69%29-28 Jackson · 22%29-28 Marcos · 6%

32 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.

Montel Jackson

2.71takedowns / 15 min
2.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.35 / 15m
4.30 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.60 / 15m
63%
ACCURACY
52%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Daniel Marcos

1.35takedowns / 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.

Montel Jackson↑ +3.6pp
open 64.5%close 68.1%
Daniel Marcos↓ −3.6pp
open 35.5%close 31.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Montel Jackson opened at 64.5% and closed at 68.1% (+3.6pp), with Daniel Marcos 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
Montel Jackson-205-24864.5%68.1%+3.6pp
Daniel Marcos17019935.5%31.9%−3.6pp
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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