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Events · UFC Fight Night: Petrino vs Asplund · Piera Rodriguez vs Sam Hughes
Red corner PieraRodriguez“La Fiera”Black House MMA · Maracaibo, Zulia
VSSettled
Blue corner SamHughes“Sampage”Fortis MMA · Davenport, Iowa
Women's Strawweight Bout3 rounds14 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Hughes.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
12-2
Record
11-7
33
Age
33
5' 3"
Height
+2″5' 5"
63″
Reach
+1″64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+511
0/40% of wins
Finishes
+33%2/633% of wins
Black House MMA
Gym
Fortis MMA
Maracaibo, Zulia
From
Davenport, Iowa
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
Piera Rodriguez
59.6% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 74%
Vs the market+2.2pp
Market had our pick at57%
The fight
Piera Rodriguez
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Piera Rodriguez at 59.6% and Piera Rodriguez won. The method call landed too.
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
Piera Rodriguez40 sig landed
HEAD45%18 of 59BODY40%16 of 19LEGS15%6 of 7
Sam Hughes33 sig landed
HEAD39%13 of 23BODY27%9 of 9LEGS33%11 of 11
40 of 85
Sig.
strikes
33 of 43
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:04
Control
0:22
Distance 29Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Piera Rodriguez30 sig landed
HEAD50%15 of 46BODY43%13 of 15LEGS7%2 of 2
Sam Hughes22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 29BODY9%2 of 4LEGS18%4 of 4
30 of 63
Sig.
strikes
22 of 37
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:14
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 12Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Piera Rodriguez37 sig landed
HEAD51%19 of 58BODY43%16 of 21LEGS5%2 of 4
Sam Hughes22 sig landed
HEAD82%18 of 58BODY9%2 of 4LEGS9%2 of 2
37 of 83
Sig.
strikes
22 of 64
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:17
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 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 · Chris Tognoni
Piera RodriguezSam Hughes
Official card — Piera Rodriguez first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Michael Bell10–910–910–930–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide10–910–910–930–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide10–910–910–930–27

Media cards — 9 scored, Piera Rodriguez first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rodriguez · 100%

16 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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