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History · 2013 · UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 3 · Ronny Markes vs Yoel Romero
From the tape · 6 Nov 2013

Ronny Markes vs Yoel Romero

UFC Fight Night: Fight for the Troops 3 · Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA
Result

Yoel Romero beat Ronny Markes

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
1:39
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

RM
Red corner RonnyMarkesNova Uniao RM · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
VSOn the tape
YR
Blue corner YoelRomero“Soldier of God”American Top Team · Miami, Florida
Middleweight3 rounds6 Nov 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 15 points more striking defence than Markes.
  • Carries 22 points more takedown defence than Romero.
17-5
Record
13-5
−11 yr25
Age
36
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+23
UFC bouts
1
0/30% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Nova Uniao RM
Gym
American Top Team
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
From
Miami, Florida
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 action
Ronny Markes4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 12BODY25%1 of 3LEGS50%2 of 7
Yoel Romero16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 20BODY12%2 of 5LEGS56%9 of 16
4 of 22
Sig.
strikes
16 of 41
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:48
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Ronny Markes8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 34BODY25%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Yoel Romero21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 33BODY19%4 of 4LEGS19%4 of 6
8 of 38
Sig.
strikes
21 of 43
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 31:39 of action⚡ 1 KD RomeroEnded 1:39
Ronny Markes6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 11BODY33%2 of 2LEGS33%2 of 2
Yoel Romero13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 15BODY23%3 of 3LEGS8%1 of 2
6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
13 of 20
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 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

Yoel Romero

Round
3
Clock
1:39
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: Mario Yamasaki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Ronny Markes

3.13takedowns / 15 min
3.13 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.57 / 15m
7.82 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.23 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
30%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Yoel Romero

1.57takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Ronny Markes↓ −10.6pp
open 50.9%close 40.4%
Yoel Romero↑ +10.6pp
open 49.1%close 59.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ronny Markes opened at 50.9% and closed at 40.4% (−10.6pp), with Yoel Romero 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
Ronny Markes-12514050.9%40.4%−10.6pp
Yoel Romero-115-16049.1%59.6%+10.6pp
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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