Round 1⚡ 1 KD Gaethje
27 of 45
Sig.
strikes
strikes
37 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 1
1:01
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 30Clinch 7Ground 0
VSSettled
The story going in
- Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
- Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
- 14 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Pimblett.
- Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
28-5
Record
24-4
37
Age
−6 yr31
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+714
UFC bouts
7
6/967% of wins
Finishes
+5%5/771% of wins
Genesis Training Center
Gym
Next Generation MMA Liverpool
Safford, Arizona
From
Liverpool, Merseyside
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.
The call vs the fight
What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.
Our call
Paddy Pimblett
68.5% confidentMED
The fight
Justin Gaethje
LOSS✓
Graded against the official UFC result, from
the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict
is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads
as one. See the full public record →
Round by round
Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
UFCStats · per round
5 rounds of tape
Round 2⚡ 1 KD Gaethje
32 of 50
Sig.
strikes
strikes
22 of 47
2 of 2
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
2:23
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 14
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 3
24 of 53
Sig.
strikes
strikes
41 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 41Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 4
32 of 54
Sig.
strikes
strikes
35 of 58
1 of 1
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 1
1:26
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 7Ground 4
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 33Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 5Ended 5:00
29 of 52
Sig.
strikes
strikes
21 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 3
1:05
Control
0:48
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
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.
Judges’ scorecards
Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.
Official card
Unanimous Decision
Referee · Marc Goddard
Justin GaethjePaddy Pimblett
| Judge | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Bell | 10–9 | 10–9 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 9–10 | 48–47 |
| Derek Cleary2.1 avg spread · 43% wide | 10–9 | 10–9 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 49–46 |
| Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide | 10–9 | 10–9 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 49–46 |
Media cards — 25 scored, Justin Gaethje first · unofficial
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com49–45
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com49–45
E. Casey Leydon49–45
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–44
Chris De Santiago BloodyElbow.com49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
Stephie Haynes49–46
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News49–46
Steve Duncan mma.uno49–46
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com48–46
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection48–46
Drake Riggs Uncrowned48–46
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com48–47
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com48–47
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com48–47
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com48–47
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks48–47
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press48–47
Scott Fontana New York Post48–47
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com48–47
Jake Noecker Home of Fight48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
MM A Latinoamerica48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Nick Baldwin theScore48–47
Fan vote · unofficial
49-46 Gaethje · 29%48-47 Gaethje · 27%49-45 Gaethje · 18%48-46 Gaethje · 12%49-44 Gaethje · 4%
588 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.
Still to come on this page
Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.
The market story coming in this build-out
What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.