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Events · UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape · Melissa Croden vs Luana Santos
From the tape · 13 Dec 2025

Melissa Croden vs Luana Santos

UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Luana Santos beat Melissa Croden

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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 MelissaCrodenRaven House MMA · Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LuanaSantosSao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds13 Dec 2025
The story going in
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Santos.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Croden.
8-3
Record
11-2
34
Age
−9 yr25
+3″5' 9"
Height
5' 6"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+45
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
3/475% of wins
Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
From
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
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
Melissa Croden7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 17BODY57%4 of 5LEGS29%2 of 5
Luana Santos10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 7BODY30%3 of 4LEGS20%2 of 2
7 of 27
Sig.
strikes
10 of 13
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:44
Control
1:51
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Croden firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Melissa Croden10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 14BODY20%2 of 2LEGS20%2 of 5
Luana Santos2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 6BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
10 of 21
Sig.
strikes
2 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:41
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Croden firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Melissa Croden5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 22BODY20%1 of 1LEGS40%2 of 3
Luana Santos0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

5 of 26
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:49
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Croden firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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 · Kerry Hatley
Melissa CrodenLuana Santos
Official totals — Melissa Croden first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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, Melissa Croden first · unofficial

Combat Press.com27–30
MM A Latinoamerica27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Santos · 60%29-28 Santos · 35%29-28 Croden · 5%

20 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.

Melissa Croden

2.02takedowns / 15 min
2.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.17 / 15m
4.04 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.62 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
47%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Luana Santos

2.17takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's 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.

Melissa Croden↑ +3.7pp
open 42.0%close 45.7%
Luana Santos↓ −3.7pp
open 58.0%close 54.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Melissa Croden opened at 42.0% and closed at 45.7% (+3.7pp), with Luana Santos 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
Melissa Croden13010942.0%45.7%+3.7pp
Luana Santos-150-13258.0%54.3%−3.7pp
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 2025-12-14 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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