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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Albert Morales vs Benito Lopez
From the tape · 9 Dec 2017

Albert Morales vs Benito Lopez

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Fresno, California, USA
Result

Benito Lopez beat Albert Morales

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mike Bell

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.

AM
Red corner AlbertMorales“The Warrior”Carson, California
VSOn the tape
BL
Blue corner BenitoLopez“Golden Boy”Team Alpha Male · Oroville, California
Bantamweight3 rounds9 Dec 2017
7-4-1
Record
10-2
26
Age
−3 yr23
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Carson, California
From
Oroville, California
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⚡ 1 KD Lopez1 sub attempt
Albert Morales15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 27BODY13%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Benito Lopez11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 22BODY9%1 of 3LEGS9%1 of 1
15 of 29
Sig.
strikes
11 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:02
Control
0:53
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstDerek Cleary9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Wade Vierra10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Albert Morales29 sig landed
HEAD52%15 of 65BODY21%6 of 8LEGS28%8 of 9
Benito Lopez34 sig landed
HEAD71%24 of 65BODY26%9 of 16LEGS3%1 of 2
29 of 82
Sig.
strikes
34 of 83
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstDerek Cleary9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Wade Vierra9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Albert Morales34 sig landed
HEAD50%17 of 62BODY18%6 of 11LEGS32%11 of 14
Benito Lopez33 sig landed
HEAD67%22 of 57BODY15%5 of 12LEGS18%6 of 9
34 of 87
Sig.
strikes
33 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 33Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstDerek Cleary10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Wade Vierra9–10

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 · Mike Bell
Albert MoralesBenito Lopez
Official totals — Albert Morales first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide27–30
Wade Vierra1.8 avg spread · 33% 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 — 15 scored, Albert Morales first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Morales · 54%30-27 Morales · 21%30-27 Lopez · 12%29-28 Lopez · 10%

52 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.

Albert Morales

0.91takedowns / 15 min
0.91 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.60 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
35%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Benito Lopez

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Albert Morales↓ −3.0pp
open 50.0%close 47.0%
Benito Lopez↑ +3.0pp
open 50.0%close 53.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Albert Morales opened at 50.0% and closed at 47.0% (−3.0pp), with Benito Lopez 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
Albert Morales-12010450.0%47.0%−3.0pp
Benito Lopez-120-12450.0%53.0%+3.0pp
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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