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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Jung vs. Ige · Marlon Vera vs Davey Grant
From the tape · 19 Jun 2021

Marlon Vera vs Davey Grant

UFC Fight Night: Jung vs. Ige · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Marlon Vera beat Davey Grant

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mike BeltranFOTN

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner MarlonVera“Chito”Team Oyama · Born in Chone, Manabí, Ecuador · Fights out of Chone, Manabí, Ecuador
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DaveyGrant“Dangerous”Syndicate MMA · Born in Darlington, County Durham, England · Fights out of Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England
Bantamweight3 rounds19 Jun 2021At the time: Marlon Vera was #15 at Bantamweight · rankings of 14 June 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Grant.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
24-12-1
Record
18-8
−7 yr28
Age
35
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+916
UFC bouts
7
+40%9/1090% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Team Oyama
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Chone, Manabí, Ecuador
Born in
Darlington, County Durham, England
Chone, Manabí, Ecuador
Fights out of
Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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.

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
Marlon Vera30 sig landed
HEAD37%11 of 29BODY30%9 of 13LEGS33%10 of 10
Davey Grant41 sig landed
HEAD29%12 of 50BODY46%19 of 24LEGS24%10 of 10
30 of 52
Sig.
strikes
41 of 84
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:27
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 40Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary10–9Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Marlon Vera43 sig landed
HEAD58%25 of 48BODY30%13 of 14LEGS12%5 of 5
Davey Grant31 sig landed
HEAD61%19 of 41BODY32%10 of 14LEGS6%2 of 2
43 of 67
Sig.
strikes
31 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:00
Control
1:54
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 12Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Vera firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Marlon Vera32 sig landed
HEAD81%26 of 36BODY19%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Davey Grant11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 23BODY27%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
32 of 43
Sig.
strikes
11 of 27
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:48
Control
0:00
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Vera firstMichael Bell10–8Derek Cleary10–8Rick Winter10–9

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 · Mike Beltran
Marlon VeraDavey Grant
Official totals — Marlon Vera first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–27
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide29–28

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 — 17 scored, Marlon Vera first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–27
Nick Baldwin theScore29–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–27
MM AJunkie.com29–27
MM AMania.com29–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com28–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Vera · 56%29-28 Vera · 17%29-28 Grant · 5%30-26 Vera · 4%

117 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.

Marlon Vera

0.57takedowns / 15 min
0.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.95 / 15m
1.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.50 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
38%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Davey Grant

0.95takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Marlon Vera↓ −8.0pp
open 74.1%close 66.1%
Davey Grant↑ +8.0pp
open 25.9%close 33.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Marlon Vera opened at 74.1% and closed at 66.1% (−8.0pp), with Davey Grant 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.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Marlon Vera-325-22874.1%66.1%−8.0pp
Davey Grant27518125.9%33.9%+8.0pp
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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