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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 Bout5 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 5
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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
Mason JonesAxel Sola
Official card — Mason Jones first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
David Lethaby2.0 avg spread · 43% wide9–1010–910–929–28
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 43% wide9–1010–910–929–28
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 53% wide10–910–910–930–27

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.

Still to come on this page

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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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