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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt · Renan Barao vs Jeremy Stephens
From the tape · 29 May 2016

Renan Barao vs Jeremy Stephens

UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jeremy Stephens beat Renan Barao

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

RB
Red corner RenanBarao“The Baron”Pitbull Brothers · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
Featherweight3 rounds29 May 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Stephens.
  • 22 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Barao.
34-9
Record
29-23
−1 yr29
Age
30
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+1222
+8%5/862% of wins
Finishes
6/1155% of wins
Pitbull Brothers
Gym
Alliance MMA
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
From
Des Moines, Iowa
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
Renan Barao15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 31BODY20%3 of 7LEGS27%4 of 6
Jeremy Stephens8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 19BODY25%2 of 3LEGS50%4 of 9
15 of 44
Sig.
strikes
8 of 31
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:02
Control
0:41
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barao firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Renan Barao11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 35BODY9%1 of 2LEGS18%2 of 3
Jeremy Stephens27 sig landed
HEAD74%20 of 44BODY11%3 of 5LEGS15%4 of 4
11 of 40
Sig.
strikes
27 of 53
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:32
Control
0:49
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barao firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Renan Barao17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 44BODY18%3 of 7LEGS12%2 of 2
Jeremy Stephens20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 50BODY10%2 of 3LEGS10%2 of 3
17 of 53
Sig.
strikes
20 of 56
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:54
Control
0:53
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barao firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Renan BaraoJeremy Stephens
Official totals — Renan Barao first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% 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 — 12 scored, Renan Barao first · unofficial

Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Stephens · 57%29-28 Barão · 37%29-27 Stephens · 1%30-26 Stephens · 1%

114 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.

Renan Barao

1.49takedowns / 15 min
1.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.10 / 15m
3.63 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.89 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
38%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 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.

Renan Barao↓ −7.4pp
open 67.4%close 60.1%
Jeremy Stephens↑ +7.4pp
open 32.6%close 39.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Renan Barao opened at 67.4% and closed at 60.1% (−7.4pp), with Jeremy Stephens 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
Renan Barao-265-16467.4%60.1%−7.4pp
Jeremy Stephens18514232.6%39.9%+7.4pp
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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