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Events · UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs Zalal · Max Griffin vs Victor Valenzuela
Red corner MaxGriffin“Pain”MMA Gold Fight Team · Sacramento, California
VSSettled
Blue corner VictorValenzuela
Welterweight3 rounds25 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
The register carries nothing we can compare on both sides for this bout, so no ladder is drawn. The lines above are counted off the official UFC fight record, which does carry both corners.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Victor Valenzuela
54.9% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 49%
Vs the market+4.9pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Victor Valenzuela
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Victor Valenzuela at 54.9% and Victor Valenzuela 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
Max Griffin10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Victor Valenzuela12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 19BODY42%5 of 6LEGS17%2 of 4
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:21
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Eric Colón10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Max Griffin10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 22BODY0%0 of 1LEGS30%3 of 4
Victor Valenzuela12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 20BODY33%4 of 6LEGS17%2 of 2
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
12 of 28
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:19
Control
0:32
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Eric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Griffin20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 37BODY5%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Victor Valenzuela29 sig landed
HEAD76%22 of 52BODY21%6 of 7LEGS3%1 of 1
20 of 38
Sig.
strikes
29 of 60
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:04
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Eric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Max GriffinVictor Valenzuela
Official totals — Max Griffin first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29

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, Max Griffin first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Valenzuela · 36%29-28 Griffin · 28%30-27 Valenzuela · 26%30-27 Griffin · 5%

39 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

Max Griffin

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.44takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.44 landed per 15 minutes — −0.55 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS47
1.44 / 15m−0.55 vs field
ATTEMPTS42
3.51 / 15m−1.43 vs field
ACCURACY50
41%−5pp vs field
SUB ATT10
0.20 / 15m−1.12 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Max Griffin↓ −4.6pp
open 50.0%close 45.4%
Victor Valenzuela↑ +4.6pp
open 50.0%close 54.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Griffin opened at 50.0% and closed at 45.4% (−4.6pp), with Victor Valenzuela 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 Victor Valenzuela at 54.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 54.6% — our number sat 0.3pp 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
Max Griffin-11011050.0%45.4%−4.6pp
Victor Valenzuela-110-13450.0%54.6%+4.6pp
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 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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