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Events · UFC 80: Rapid Fire · Fabricio Werdum vs Gabriel Gonzaga
From the tape · 19 Jan 2008

Fabricio Werdum vs Gabriel Gonzaga

UFC 80: Rapid Fire · Newcastle, England, United Kingdom
Result

Fabricio Werdum beat Gabriel Gonzaga

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:34
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

FW
Red corner FabricioWerdum“Vai Cavalo”Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
VSOn the tape
GG
Blue corner GabrielGonzaga“Napao”Team Link · Rio de Janeiro
Heavyweight3 rounds19 Jan 2008
The story going in
  • Lands 1.5 more significant strikes a minute than Gonzaga.
  • Every one of Gonzaga’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Werdum.
24-9-1
Record
17-11
30
Age
−2 yr28
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+45
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
From
Rio de Janeiro
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Fabricio Werdum9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 17BODY11%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Gabriel Gonzaga8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 2BODY12%1 of 1LEGS75%6 of 6
9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
8 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:39
Control
1:35
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
Round 24:34 of actionEnded 4:34
Fabricio Werdum37 sig landed
HEAD95%35 of 67BODY0%0 landedLEGS5%2 of 4
Gabriel Gonzaga11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 14BODY27%3 of 4LEGS36%4 of 6
37 of 71
Sig.
strikes
11 of 24
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:10
Control
0:26
Distance 12Clinch 10Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 2

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Fabricio Werdum

Round
2
Clock
4:34
Method
KO/TKO

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: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Fabricio Werdum

1.75takedowns / 15 min
1.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.80 / 15m
5.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.18 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
39%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Gabriel Gonzaga

2.80takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Fabricio Werdum→ no move
open 30.6%close 30.2%
Gabriel Gonzaga→ no move
open 69.4%close 69.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Fabricio Werdum opened at 30.6% and closed at 30.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Fabricio Werdum21522030.6%30.2%−0.4pp
Gabriel Gonzaga-255-26069.4%69.8%+0.4pp
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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