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Events · UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann · Ricardo Almeida vs Matt Horwich
From the tape · 1 Apr 2009

Ricardo Almeida vs Matt Horwich

UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Ricardo Almeida beat Matt Horwich

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · 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.

RA
Red corner RicardoAlmeida“Big Dog”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Bordentown, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MattHorwich“Suave”Legends MMA · Hollywood, California
Middleweight3 rounds1 Apr 2009
The story going in
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Horwich.
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Almeida.
  • Averages 3.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Horwich.
13-5
Record
30-25-1
32
Age
−2 yr30
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Legends MMA
Bordentown, New Jersey
From
Hollywood, California
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action2 sub attempts
Ricardo Almeida13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 17BODY46%6 of 7LEGS0%0 of 1
Matt Horwich14 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 5BODY71%10 of 11LEGS21%3 of 4
13 of 25
Sig.
strikes
14 of 20
3 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:49
Control
0:43
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 8Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Ricardo Almeida17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 23BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Horwich4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS75%3 of 3
17 of 25
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:21
Control
0:10
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ricardo Almeida11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 16BODY9%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Horwich7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 6BODY43%3 of 3LEGS43%3 of 4
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
3 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:13
Control
1:11
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 5Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Ricardo Almeida

3.74takedowns / 15 min
3.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.33 / 15m
9.84 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.67 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
9%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.70 / 15m

Matt Horwich

0.33takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Ricardo Almeida↑ +2.1pp
open 71.8%close 74.0%
Matt Horwich↓ −2.1pp
open 28.2%close 26.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricardo Almeida opened at 71.8% and closed at 74.0% (+2.1pp), with Matt Horwich 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
Ricardo Almeida-300-33071.8%74.0%+2.1pp
Matt Horwich24027028.2%26.0%−2.1pp
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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