What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.
A rematch: Simon beat Jackson in their last meeting (August 2018, on the scorecards). In UFC rematches, the winner of the last meeting wins again 60% of the time (116 of 193 fights).
History leans Simon on 1 of these; our model picked Jackson.
Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.
Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.
2 rounds of tape
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.
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Montel Jackson
This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jason Herzog.
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Montel Jackson
Ricky Simon
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.
What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.
From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Montel Jackson's implied chance moved up from 66% to 68% (+2.0pp).
This series stops at Sep 26 22:01Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.
Our published call had Montel Jackson at 71.8%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 67.5% — our number sat 4.3pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.
| Series | Open | Low | High | Last pre-fight | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montel Jackson — sportsbook consensus | 60.5% | 60.2% | 67.5% | 67.5% | +7.0pp |
| Ricky Simon — sportsbook consensus | 39.5% | 32.5% | 39.8% | 32.5% | −7.0pp |
| Montel Jackson — Polymarket | 65.5% | 62.5% | 67.5% | 67.5% | +2.0pp |
| Ricky Simon — Polymarket | 34.5% | 32.5% | 37.5% | 32.5% | −2.0pp |