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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo · Rob Font vs Jose Aldo
From the tape · 4 Dec 2021

Rob Font vs Jose Aldo

UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jose Aldo beat Rob Font

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMainReferee · Keith Peterson

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 RobFontNew England Cartel · Born in Leominster, Massachusetts, United States · Fights out of Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoseAldoNova Uniao · Born in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil · Fights out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bantamweight5 rounds4 Dec 2021At the time: #4 Bantamweight vs #5 · rankings of 23 November 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 12 UFC wins.
22-10
Record
32-10
−1 yr34
Age
35
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+1″71″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+618
+33%6/967% of wins
Finishes
4/1233% of wins
New England Cartel
Gym
Nova Uniao
Leominster, Massachusetts, United States
Born in
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
Fights out of
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Aldo
Rob Font36 sig landed
HEAD58%21 of 72BODY33%12 of 14LEGS8%3 of 4
Jose Aldo26 sig landed
HEAD73%19 of 34BODY15%4 of 4LEGS12%3 of 3
36 of 90
Sig.
strikes
26 of 41
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:50
Control
0:09
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rob Font48 sig landed
HEAD48%23 of 60BODY27%13 of 17LEGS25%12 of 12
Jose Aldo23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 41BODY35%8 of 9LEGS0%0 of 1
48 of 89
Sig.
strikes
23 of 51
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 48Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Rob Font37 sig landed
HEAD78%29 of 55BODY16%6 of 7LEGS5%2 of 2
Jose Aldo12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS58%7 of 8
37 of 64
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 35Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 45:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Aldo
Rob Font10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 19BODY10%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jose Aldo10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 8BODY40%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 20
Sig.
strikes
10 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
4:35
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 3
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 55:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Rob Font18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 32BODY33%6 of 9LEGS0%0 of 1
Jose Aldo15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 25BODY20%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 42
Sig.
strikes
15 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:18
Control
2:12
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Font firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
Rob FontJose Aldo
Official totals — Rob Font first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide45–50
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide45–50

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 — 21 scored, Rob Font first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com45–50
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com45–50
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com45–50
MM AJunkie.com45–50
MM AMania.com45–50
Sheehan SevereMMA.com45–50
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com45–50
Scott Fontana New York Post45–50
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv45–50
Nick Baldwin theScore45–50
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com45–50
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com45–50
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com45–50
Jillian DeCoursey45–50
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com45–50
Daniel Yanofsky Fightful.com45–50
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com46–49
Combat Press.com46–49
Steven Marrocco MMAFighting.com46–49
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com46–49
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com46–48

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Aldo · 42%49-46 Aldo · 25%48-47 Aldo · 14%50-44 Aldo · 4%49-47 Aldo · 4%

258 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.

Rob Font

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.47 / 15m
2.41 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.92 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
51%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Jose Aldo

0.47takedowns / 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.

Rob Font↑ +4.4pp
open 51.1%close 55.5%
Jose Aldo↓ −4.4pp
open 48.9%close 44.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rob Font opened at 51.1% and closed at 55.5% (+4.4pp), with Jose Aldo 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
Rob Font-115-13851.1%55.5%+4.4pp
Jose Aldo-10511548.9%44.5%−4.4pp
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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