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Events · UFC 74: Respect · Clay Guida vs Marcus Aurelio
From the tape · 25 Aug 2007

Clay Guida vs Marcus Aurelio

UFC 74: Respect · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Clay Guida beat Marcus Aurelio

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

CG
Red corner ClayGuida“The Carpenter”Team Alpha Male · Round Lake, Illinois
VSOn the tape
MA
Blue corner MarcusAurelio“Maximus”Elite Mixed Fighters · Fortaleza, Ceara
Lightweight3 rounds25 Aug 2007
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 39 points more takedown defence than Aurelio.
38-22
Record
22-10
−9 yr25
Age
34
5' 7"
Height
+3″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+4″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Elite Mixed Fighters
Round Lake, Illinois
From
Fortaleza, Ceara
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.

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⚡ 1 KD Guida
Clay Guida14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 45BODY21%3 of 5LEGS21%3 of 4
Marcus Aurelio13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 39BODY0%0 landedLEGS8%1 of 1
14 of 54
Sig.
strikes
13 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:34
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstJeff Collins10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Guida
Clay Guida13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 34BODY15%2 of 3LEGS23%3 of 3
Marcus Aurelio7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
13 of 40
Sig.
strikes
7 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:53
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstJeff Collins10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Clay Guida17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 76BODY6%1 of 5LEGS29%5 of 6
Marcus Aurelio20 sig landed
HEAD100%20 of 72BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
17 of 87
Sig.
strikes
20 of 72
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstJeff Collins10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Steve Mazzagatti
Clay GuidaMarcus Aurelio
Official totals — Clay Guida first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Collins1.8 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% 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 — 3 scored, Clay Guida first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Guida · 78%30-29 Aurélio · 11%29-28 Aurélio · 11%

9 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.

Clay Guida

3.10takedowns / 15 min
3.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.69 / 15m
8.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.26 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
27%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Marcus Aurelio

1.69takedowns / 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.

Clay Guida↑ +3.2pp
open 50.0%close 53.2%
Marcus Aurelio↓ −3.2pp
open 50.0%close 46.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Clay Guida opened at 50.0% and closed at 53.2% (+3.2pp), with Marcus Aurelio 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
Clay Guida-120-12550.0%53.2%+3.2pp
Marcus Aurelio-12010550.0%46.8%−3.2pp
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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