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History · 2025 · UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 · Kelvin Gastelum vs Joe Pyfer
From the tape · 7 Jun 2025

Kelvin Gastelum vs Joe Pyfer

UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Joe Pyfer beat Kelvin Gastelum

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain 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 KelvinGastelumFight Ready · Yuma, Arizona
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoePyfer“Bodybagz”Team Balance · Media, Pennsylvania
Middleweight3 rounds7 Jun 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Pyfer’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 23 UFC bouts deep — 18 more than Pyfer.
21-11
Record
16-3
33
Age
−5 yr28
5' 9"
Height
+5″6' 2"
71″
Reach
+4″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1823
UFC bouts
5
5/1338% of wins
Finishes
+62%4/4100% of wins
Fight Ready
Gym
Team Balance
Yuma, Arizona
From
Media, Pennsylvania
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⚡ 2 KD Pyfer
Kelvin Gastelum8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 14BODY25%2 of 3LEGS38%3 of 3
Joe Pyfer21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 33BODY24%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 20
Sig.
strikes
21 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:16
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstEric Colón8–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Kelvin Gastelum11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 34BODY55%6 of 10LEGS27%3 of 6
Joe Pyfer17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 35BODY24%4 of 4LEGS6%1 of 1
11 of 50
Sig.
strikes
17 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kelvin Gastelum14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 21BODY21%3 of 4LEGS21%3 of 4
Joe Pyfer19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 31BODY16%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 29
Sig.
strikes
19 of 35
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:27
Control
0:15
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gastelum firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9

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 · Mike Beltran
Kelvin GastelumJoe Pyfer
Official totals — Kelvin Gastelum first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 18 scored, Kelvin Gastelum first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com27–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–29
Stephie Haynes27–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–29
MM AMania.com27–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–29
Drake Riggs Uncrowned27–29
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com27–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Pyfer · 38%29-28 Pyfer · 11%29-28 Gastelum · 11%30-26 Pyfer · 3%

188 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.

Kelvin Gastelum

1.04takedowns / 15 min
1.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.45 / 15m
2.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.83 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
30%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Joe Pyfer

1.45takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Kelvin Gastelum↓ −0.9pp
open 24.2%close 23.3%
Joe Pyfer↑ +0.9pp
open 75.8%close 76.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kelvin Gastelum opened at 24.2% and closed at 23.3% (−0.9pp), with Joe Pyfer 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
Kelvin Gastelum29531124.2%23.3%−0.9pp
Joe Pyfer-385-40375.8%76.7%+0.9pp
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 2025-06-08 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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