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History · 2014 · UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi · Rafael Natal vs Chris Camozzi
From the tape · 5 Sep 2014

Rafael Natal vs Chris Camozzi

UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs Mousasi · Ledyard, Connecticut, USA
Result

Rafael Natal beat Chris Camozzi

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

RN
Red corner RafaelNatal“Sapo”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
CC
Blue corner ChrisCamozziFactory X · Englewood, Colorado
Middleweight3 rounds5 Sep 2014
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Camozzi.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
21-9-1
Record
24-13
31
Age
−4 yr27
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+111
1/520% of wins
Finishes
+13%2/633% of wins
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Factory X
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
From
Englewood, Colorado
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
Rafael Natal16 sig landed
HEAD19%3 of 15BODY44%7 of 9LEGS38%6 of 6
Chris Camozzi14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 16BODY14%2 of 2LEGS64%9 of 9
16 of 30
Sig.
strikes
14 of 27
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:16
Control
0:11
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Natal firstSal D'Amato10–9Sue Sanidad10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Natal12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 11BODY50%6 of 9LEGS33%4 of 4
Chris Camozzi12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 15BODY33%4 of 4LEGS33%4 of 6
12 of 24
Sig.
strikes
12 of 25
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:57
Control
1:05
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Natal firstSal D'Amato10–9Sue Sanidad10–9Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafael Natal8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 10BODY38%3 of 4LEGS50%4 of 5
Chris Camozzi41 sig landed
HEAD78%32 of 51BODY10%4 of 4LEGS12%5 of 5
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
41 of 60
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
1:28
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Natal firstSal D'Amato9–10Sue Sanidad9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
Rafael NatalChris Camozzi
Official totals — Rafael Natal first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Sue Sanidad29–28
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide28–29

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 — 13 scored, Rafael Natal first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Fight Matrix.com29–29
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com29–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com28–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Camozzi · 49%29-28 Natal · 32%30-28 Camozzi · 5%30-27 Camozzi · 2%

41 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.

Rafael Natal

2.55takedowns / 15 min
2.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.27 / 15m
7.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.42 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
19%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Chris Camozzi

0.27takedowns / 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.

Rafael Natal↓ −2.2pp
open 65.3%close 63.1%
Chris Camozzi↑ +2.2pp
open 34.7%close 36.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Natal opened at 65.3% and closed at 63.1% (−2.2pp), with Chris Camozzi 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
Rafael Natal-230-18465.3%63.1%−2.2pp
Chris Camozzi17016434.7%36.9%+2.2pp
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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