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Events · UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs Zalal · Rafa Garcia vs Alexander Hernandez
Red corner RafaGarcia“Gifted”Mexicali, Baja California
VSSettled
Blue corner AlexanderHernandez“The Great Ape”Factory X · San Antonio, Texas
Lightweight3 rounds25 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
19-4
Record
18-9
−2 yr31
Age
33
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+717
2/633% of wins
Finishes
+17%5/1050% of wins
Mexicali, Baja California
From
San Antonio, Texas
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
Rafa Garcia
50.5% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 63%
Vs the market+7.7pp
Market had our pick at43%
The fight
Rafa Garcia
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Rafa Garcia at 50.5% and Rafa Garcia 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
Rafa Garcia10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 36BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%4 of 4
Alexander Hernandez8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 20BODY38%3 of 4LEGS0%0 of 3
10 of 40
Sig.
strikes
8 of 27
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:28
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garcia firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rafa Garcia20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 65BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%1 of 1
Alexander Hernandez18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 32BODY17%3 of 4LEGS6%1 of 2
20 of 66
Sig.
strikes
18 of 38
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:10
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garcia firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafa Garcia29 sig landed
HEAD93%27 of 60BODY3%1 of 2LEGS3%1 of 1
Alexander Hernandez24 sig landed
HEAD88%21 of 74BODY12%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
29 of 63
Sig.
strikes
24 of 80
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:12
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garcia firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Kerry Hatley
Rafa GarciaAlexander Hernandez
Official totals — Rafa Garcia first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 13 scored, Rafa Garcia first · unofficial

Combat Press.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
MM A Latinoamerica29–28
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Garcia · 65%29-28 Garcia · 30%29-28 Hernandez · 5%

20 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.

Rafa Garcia

3.22takedowns / 15 min
3.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.05 / 15m
7.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.00 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
35%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Alexander Hernandez

1.05takedowns / 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.

Rafa Garcia↑ +5.7pp
open 42.0%close 47.7%
Alexander Hernandez↓ −5.7pp
open 58.0%close 52.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafa Garcia opened at 42.0% and closed at 47.7% (+5.7pp), with Alexander Hernandez 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 Rafa Garcia at 50.5%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 47.7% — our number sat 2.8pp 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
Rafa Garcia130-10042.0%47.7%+5.7pp
Alexander Hernandez-150-12158.0%52.3%−5.7pp
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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