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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman · Brandon Moreno vs Alexandre Pantoja
From the tape · 19 May 2018

Brandon Moreno vs Alexandre Pantoja

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Usman · Santiago, Chile
Result

Alexandre Pantoja beat Brandon Moreno

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

Red corner BrandonMoreno“The Assassin Baby”Fortis MMA · Tijuana, Baja California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexandrePantoja“The Cannibal”American Top Team · Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
Flyweight3 rounds19 May 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Moreno.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Pantoja.
23-10-2
Record
30-6
−4 yr24
Age
28
+2″5' 7"
Height
5' 5"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+14
UFC bouts
3
2/367% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
American Top Team
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
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
Brandon Moreno17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 33BODY6%1 of 1LEGS29%5 of 11
Alexandre Pantoja33 sig landed
HEAD76%25 of 51BODY9%3 of 3LEGS15%5 of 7
17 of 45
Sig.
strikes
33 of 61
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:47
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Moreno firstRichard Bertrand8–10Chris Lee8–10Marcelo Vilhena8–10
Round 25:00 of action
Brandon Moreno18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 45BODY11%2 of 2LEGS17%3 of 3
Alexandre Pantoja26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 47BODY8%2 of 6LEGS27%7 of 9
18 of 50
Sig.
strikes
26 of 62
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:16
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstRichard Bertrand9–10Chris Lee9–10Marcelo Vilhena9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brandon Moreno10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 35BODY10%1 of 2LEGS10%1 of 1
Alexandre Pantoja20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 35BODY10%2 of 8LEGS10%2 of 2
10 of 38
Sig.
strikes
20 of 45
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:09
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstRichard Bertrand10–9Chris Lee9–10Marcelo Vilhena9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Brandon MorenoAlexandre Pantoja
Official totals — Brandon Moreno first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide26–30
Marcelo Vilhena26–30

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 — 16 scored, Brandon Moreno first · unofficial

Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com26–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com26–30
MM ABrasil.com.br26–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com26–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com26–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com26–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com26–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com26–30
MM AMania.com26–30
Nolan King MMA- Today.com26–30
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com26–30
MM AJunkie.com26–30
Chris Connor The Fight City27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Pantoja · 54%30-27 Pantoja · 22%29-27 Pantoja · 11%29-28 Pantoja · 8%30-25 Pantoja · 3%

37 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.

Brandon Moreno

1.36takedowns / 15 min
1.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.79 / 15m
3.49 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
47%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Alexandre Pantoja

2.79takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Brandon Moreno↓ −9.2pp
open 59.2%close 50.0%
Alexandre Pantoja↑ +9.2pp
open 40.8%close 50.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brandon Moreno opened at 59.2% and closed at 50.0% (−9.2pp), with Alexandre Pantoja 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
Brandon Moreno-170-11059.2%50.0%−9.2pp
Alexandre Pantoja130-11040.8%50.0%+9.2pp
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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