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History · 2016 · Sergio Moraes vs Zak Ottow
From the tape · 19 Nov 2016

Sergio Moraes vs Zak Ottow

Result

Sergio Moraes beat Zak Ottow

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

SM
Red corner SergioMoraes“The Panther”Brazilian TKO · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
ZO
Blue corner ZakOttow“The Barbarian”Pura Vida BJJ · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Welterweight3 rounds19 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Ottow.
14-6-1
Record
17-7
34
Age
−5 yr29
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+56
UFC bouts
1
3/475% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Brazilian TKO
Gym
Pura Vida BJJ
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
From
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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
Sergio Moraes4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Zak Ottow4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
4 of 15
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:20
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moraes firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Joseph Terrell10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sergio Moraes11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 24BODY27%3 of 6LEGS18%2 of 2
Zak Ottow16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 55BODY6%1 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 32
Sig.
strikes
16 of 62
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moraes firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Joseph Terrell10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sergio Moraes20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 42BODY0%0 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
Zak Ottow24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 55BODY25%6 of 7LEGS21%5 of 5
20 of 44
Sig.
strikes
24 of 67
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:45
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moraes firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Joseph Terrell10–9

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 · Eduardo Herdy
Sergio MoraesZak Ottow
Official totals — Sergio Moraes first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide30–27
Joseph Terrell2.1 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

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, Sergio Moraes first · unofficial

Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AForum.com.br29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Moraes · 50%29-28 Ottow · 32%30-27 Moraes · 11%30-27 Ottow · 4%30-28 Moraes · 4%

28 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.

Sergio Moraes

1.20takedowns / 15 min
1.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.97 / 15m
3.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.34 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
29%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Zak Ottow

0.97takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Sergio Moraes↓ −3.4pp
open 61.4%close 58.0%
Zak Ottow↑ +3.4pp
open 38.6%close 42.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sergio Moraes opened at 61.4% and closed at 58.0% (−3.4pp), with Zak Ottow 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
Sergio Moraes-185-15061.4%58.0%−3.4pp
Zak Ottow14513038.6%42.0%+3.4pp
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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