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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes · Belal Muhammad vs Chance Rencountre
From the tape · 1 Jun 2018

Belal Muhammad vs Chance Rencountre

UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes · Utica, New York, USA
Result

Belal Muhammad beat Chance Rencountre

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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 BelalMuhammad“Remember the Name”Roufusport · Chicago, Illinois
VSOn the tape
CR
Blue corner ChanceRencountre“Black Eagle”Alliance MMA · Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Welterweight3 rounds1 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 74 points more takedown defence than Rencountre.
24-6
Record
14-4
−2 yr29
Age
31
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Roufusport
Gym
Alliance MMA
Chicago, Illinois
From
Pawhuska, Oklahoma
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
Belal Muhammad21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 29BODY5%1 of 2LEGS57%12 of 14
Chance Rencountre7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 41BODY0%0 of 5LEGS57%4 of 5
21 of 45
Sig.
strikes
7 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Muhammad firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Belal Muhammad29 sig landed
HEAD72%21 of 37BODY14%4 of 6LEGS14%4 of 5
Chance Rencountre4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 34BODY25%1 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
29 of 48
Sig.
strikes
4 of 39
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:19
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Muhammad firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Belal Muhammad20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 33BODY15%3 of 3LEGS5%1 of 1
Chance Rencountre5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 27BODY40%2 of 5LEGS20%1 of 1
20 of 37
Sig.
strikes
5 of 33
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Muhammad firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kevin MacDonald
Belal MuhammadChance Rencountre
Official totals — Belal Muhammad first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 17 scored, Belal Muhammad first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com30–27
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Chris Connor The Fight City30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Muhammad · 75%30-26 Muhammad · 17%30-25 Muhammad · 8%

12 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.

Belal Muhammad

2.14takedowns / 15 min
2.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.35 / 15m
5.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.19 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
26%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Chance Rencountre

1.35takedowns / 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.

Belal Muhammad↑ +4.0pp
open 75.2%close 79.2%
Chance Rencountre↓ −4.0pp
open 24.8%close 20.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Belal Muhammad opened at 75.2% and closed at 79.2% (+4.0pp), with Chance Rencountre 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
Belal Muhammad-400-44775.2%79.2%+4.0pp
Chance Rencountre28036724.8%20.8%−4.0pp
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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