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Events · McGregor vs Holloway 2 · Cory Sandhagen vs Mario Bautista
Red corner CorySandhagenElevation Fight Team · Aurora, Colorado
VSSettled
Blue corner MarioBautistaMMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds11 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
18-7
Record
18-3
34
Age
−1 yr33
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Switch
Stance
Switch
+216
UFC bouts
14
+18%7/1164% of wins
Finishes
5/1145% of wins
Elevation Fight Team
Gym
MMA Lab
Aurora, Colorado
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Cory Sandhagen
54.1% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 68%
Vs the market+4.1pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Mario Bautista
LOSS
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Cory Sandhagen at 54.1%Mario Bautista won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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 action2 sub attempts
Cory Sandhagen39 sig landed
HEAD59%23 of 50BODY18%7 of 12LEGS23%9 of 9
Mario Bautista35 sig landed
HEAD69%24 of 40BODY14%5 of 6LEGS17%6 of 6
39 of 71
Sig.
strikes
35 of 52
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:23
Control
0:37
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 31Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstBen Cartlidge9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Cory Sandhagen39 sig landed
HEAD97%38 of 74BODY3%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Mario Bautista39 sig landed
HEAD51%20 of 55BODY23%9 of 12LEGS26%10 of 12
39 of 77
Sig.
strikes
39 of 79
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:09
Control
0:18
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 33Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstBen Cartlidge10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Bautista1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Cory Sandhagen11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 26BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
Mario Bautista40 sig landed
HEAD80%32 of 46BODY15%6 of 6LEGS5%2 of 2
11 of 28
Sig.
strikes
40 of 54
1 of 2
Take-
downs
7 of 11
0:41
Control
2:26
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 6Ground 15
Judges · this round · Sandhagen firstBen Cartlidge9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Cory SandhagenMario Bautista
Official totals — Cory Sandhagen first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 9 scored, Cory Sandhagen first · unofficial

Unattributed28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
MMAFighting.com28–29
Unattributed28–29
Unattributed29–28
Unattributed29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sandhagen · 46%29-28 Bautista · 42%30-27 Bautista · 4%29-27 Bautista · 3%

213 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.

Cory Sandhagen

1.15takedowns / 15 min
1.15 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.91 / 15m
3.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.03 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
38%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Mario Bautista

1.91takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Cory SandhagenMario BautistaPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Cory Sandhagen vs Mario Bautista — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Cory Sandhagen and Mario Bautista from Jul 07 to Jul 11, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Cory Sandhagen moves from 34% to 56% and Mario Bautista from 66% to 44%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.25%35%45%55%65%Jul 7Jul 8Jul 9Jul 10Jul 11▲ we passed here (toss-up)56%44%

Cory Sandhagen's implied chance drifted up from 34% to 56% (+23.0pp) over this window. Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Cory Sandhagen at 54.1%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 56.5% — our number sat 2.4pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Cory Sandhagen — sportsbook consensus58.4%54.1%58.4%56.4%−2.0pp
Mario Bautista — sportsbook consensus41.6%41.6%45.9%43.6%+2.0pp
Cory Sandhagen — Polymarket33.5%33.5%57.5%56.5%+23.0pp
Mario Bautista — Polymarket66.5%42.5%66.5%43.5%−23.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,108 snapshots on file · window Jul 07 18:09Jul 11 23:57Z · last capture Jul 11, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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