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Events · UFC Fight Night: Leavitt vs Valle · Zach Reese vs Michel Pereira
Red corner ZachReeseBarstow, California
VSSettled
Blue corner MichelPereira“Demolidor”Overcome Academy · Tucuma, Para
Middleweight Bout3 rounds21 Feb 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Pereira.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
10-4
Record
32-15
−1 yr31
Age
32
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
+4″77″
Reach
73″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+714
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+6%5/956% of wins
Barstow, California
From
Tucuma, Para
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
Zach Reese
54.7% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 41%
Vs the market+4.7pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Michel Pereira
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Zach Reese at 54.7%Michel Pereira won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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 — 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
Zach Reese23 sig landed
HEAD17%4 of 29BODY35%8 of 11LEGS48%11 of 11
Michel Pereira18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 21BODY56%10 of 19LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 51
Sig.
strikes
18 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:42
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Reese firstChris Lee9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10Ryan Thompson9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Zach Reese24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 25BODY46%11 of 15LEGS17%4 of 4
Michel Pereira22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 25BODY41%9 of 16LEGS5%1 of 1
24 of 44
Sig.
strikes
22 of 42
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:44
Control
0:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Reese firstChris Lee9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10Ryan Thompson10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Zach Reese27 sig landed
HEAD41%11 of 36BODY41%11 of 12LEGS19%5 of 5
Michel Pereira23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 29BODY52%12 of 18LEGS9%2 of 3
27 of 53
Sig.
strikes
23 of 50
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:03
Control
0:03
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Reese firstChris Lee10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9Ryan Thompson10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Zach ReeseMichel Pereira
Official totals — Zach Reese first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
Ryan Thompson29–28

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 — 13 scored, Zach Reese first · unofficial

Combat Press.com28–29
MM A Latinoamerica28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Reese · 54%29-28 Pereira · 38%30-27 Pereira · 4%30-27 Reese · 2%30-28 Reese · 2%

117 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.

Zach Reese

2.80takedowns / 15 min
2.80 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.21 / 15m
4.59 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.16 / 15m
61%
ACCURACY
56%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Michel Pereira

1.21takedowns / 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.

Zach Reese↓ −2.0pp
open 42.0%close 40.0%
Michel Pereira↑ +2.0pp
open 58.0%close 60.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Zach Reese opened at 42.0% and closed at 40.0% (−2.0pp), with Michel Pereira 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.

Our published call had Zach Reese at 54.7%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 40.0% — our number sat 14.7pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Zach Reese13013742.0%40.0%−2.0pp
Michel Pereira-150-17258.0%60.0%+2.0pp
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 2026-02-22 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-08-09. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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