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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Zach ReeseMichel Pereira
Official card — Zach Reese first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide9–109–1010–928–29
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% wide9–109–1010–928–29
Ryan Thompson9–1010–910–929–28

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.

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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.

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