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Events · UFC Fight Night: Jones vs Sola · Mason Jones vs Axel Sola
Red corner MasonJones“Dragon”Pedro Bessa BJJ · Blaenavon
VSSettled
Blue corner AxelSolaBoxing Squad · France
Lightweight Bout3 rounds21 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Jones.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Sola.
18-3
Record
12-1-1
30
Age
−2 yr28
5' 10"
Height
+2″6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+56
UFC bouts
1
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Pedro Bessa BJJ
Gym
Boxing Squad
Blaenavon
From
France
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
Mason Jones
50.8% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 60%
Vs the market−3.2pp
Market had our pick at54%
The fight
Mason Jones
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Mason Jones at 50.8% and Mason Jones 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 — 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
Mason Jones18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 39BODY22%4 of 5LEGS11%2 of 2
Axel Sola15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 28BODY13%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 46
Sig.
strikes
15 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
1:45
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstDavid Lethaby9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10Darryl Ransom10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Mason Jones34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 62BODY15%5 of 8LEGS9%3 of 3
Axel Sola22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 42BODY36%8 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
34 of 73
Sig.
strikes
22 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:23
Distance 30Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Darryl Ransom10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mason Jones58 sig landed
HEAD66%38 of 92BODY34%20 of 24LEGS0%0 of 1
Axel Sola28 sig landed
HEAD79%22 of 46BODY21%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
58 of 117
Sig.
strikes
28 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:05
Control
0:11
Distance 37Clinch 20Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Darryl Ransom10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Mason JonesAxel Sola
Official totals — Mason Jones first
JudgeTotal
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide30–27

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, Mason Jones first · unofficial

Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Chris De Santiago MMA Island29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Jones · 74%29-27 Jones · 16%30-27 Jones · 4%30-26 Jones · 3%30-26 Sola · 1%

77 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.

Mason Jones

3.48takedowns / 15 min
3.48 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.22 / 15m
6.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.17 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
36%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Axel Sola

2.22takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Mason Jonesclose only
no opening line on recordclose 58.3%
Axel Solaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 41.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Mason Jones 58.3%, Axel Sola 41.7%, vig removed.

Our published call had Mason Jones at 50.8%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 58.3% — our number sat 7.5pp below 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
Mason Jones-220-15658.3%
Axel Sola12941.7%
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% · scraped 2026-08-30 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Axel Sola, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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