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Events · UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 · Henry Cejudo vs Payton Talbott
From the tape · 6 Dec 2025

Henry Cejudo vs Payton Talbott

UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Payton Talbott beat Henry Cejudo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

HC
Red corner HenryCejudo“Triple C”Fight Ready · Phoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PaytonTalbottReno Academy of Combat · Reno, Nevada
Bantamweight3 rounds6 Dec 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Lands 2.8 more significant strikes a minute than Cejudo.
16-6
Record
11-1
38
Age
−11 yr27
5' 4"
Height
+6″5' 10"
64″
Reach
+6″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1015
UFC bouts
5
4/1040% of wins
Finishes
+35%3/475% of wins
Fight Ready
Gym
Reno Academy of Combat
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Reno, Nevada
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
Henry Cejudo22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 28BODY5%1 of 2LEGS45%10 of 14
Payton Talbott40 sig landed
HEAD70%28 of 45BODY18%7 of 7LEGS12%5 of 5
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
40 of 57
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
1:37
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 4Ground 7
Judges · this round · Cejudo firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Talbott
Henry Cejudo18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 30BODY17%3 of 4LEGS22%4 of 4
Payton Talbott50 sig landed
HEAD70%35 of 69BODY26%13 of 17LEGS4%2 of 2
18 of 38
Sig.
strikes
50 of 88
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:13
Control
0:36
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 12Ground 9
Judges · this round · Cejudo firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Henry Cejudo20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 25BODY30%6 of 6LEGS15%3 of 3
Payton Talbott44 sig landed
HEAD59%26 of 53BODY32%14 of 15LEGS9%4 of 4
20 of 34
Sig.
strikes
44 of 72
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:26
Control
1:18
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cejudo firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10David Lethaby9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Henry CejudoPayton Talbott
Official totals — Henry Cejudo first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% 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 — 17 scored, Henry Cejudo first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight27–30
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30
Cody Merrow MMA Underground27–30
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Drake Riggs Uncrowned27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Talbott · 90%30-26 Talbott · 6%29-28 Cejudo · 3%29-28 Talbott · 1%

69 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.

Henry Cejudo

1.78takedowns / 15 min
1.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.78 / 15m
6.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.77 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
44%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Payton Talbott

0.78takedowns / 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.

Henry Cejudo→ no move
open 31.1%close 30.8%
Payton Talbott→ no move
open 68.9%close 69.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Henry Cejudo opened at 31.1% and closed at 30.8% 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
Henry Cejudo21021231.1%30.8%−0.4pp
Payton Talbott-250-25968.9%69.2%+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 2025-12-07 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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