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Events · UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 3 · Bruno Korea vs Matheus Nicolau
From the tape · 7 Nov 2015

Bruno Korea vs Matheus Nicolau

UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs Henderson 3 · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

Matheus Nicolau beat Bruno Korea

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
3:27
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Eduardo Herdy

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.

BK
Red corner BrunoKorea
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MatheusNicolauNova Uniao · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Bantamweight3 rounds7 Nov 2015
7-3
Record
19-6-1
24
Age
−2 yr22
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
65″
Reach
+1″66″
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⚡ 1 KD Nicolau
Bruno Korea8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 22BODY25%2 of 3LEGS25%2 of 2
Matheus Nicolau18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 21BODY28%5 of 5LEGS33%6 of 6
8 of 27
Sig.
strikes
18 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
2:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 2
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Korea1 sub attempt
Bruno Korea17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 30BODY24%4 of 5LEGS12%2 of 2
Matheus Nicolau15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 20BODY20%3 of 5LEGS7%1 of 2
17 of 37
Sig.
strikes
15 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:23
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
Round 33:27 of action⚡ 1 KD Nicolau2 sub attemptsEnded 3:27
Bruno Korea2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 13BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Matheus Nicolau13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 15
Sig.
strikes
13 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:08
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 8

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

Matheus Nicolau

Round
3
Clock
3:27
Method
Submission

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: Eduardo Herdy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Bruno Korea

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.22 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
2.84 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
43%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Matheus Nicolau

1.22takedowns / 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.

Bruno Korea↓ −2.1pp
open 38.6%close 36.5%
Matheus Nicolau↑ +2.1pp
open 61.4%close 63.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Bruno Korea opened at 38.6% and closed at 36.5% (−2.1pp), with Matheus Nicolau 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
Bruno Korea14516538.6%36.5%−2.1pp
Matheus Nicolau-185-19061.4%63.5%+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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