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History · 2018 · The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated Finale · Jay Cucciniello vs Brad Katona
From the tape · 6 Jul 2018

Jay Cucciniello vs Brad Katona

The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brad Katona beat Jay Cucciniello

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Ultimate Fighter 27 Featherweight Tournament TitleMain cardReferee · 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.

JC
Red corner JayCuccinielloLilius Barnatt Martial Arts · Dublin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BradKatona“Superman”SBG Ireland · Winnipeg, Manitoba
Ultimate Fighter 27 Featherweight Tournament Title3 rounds6 Jul 2018
8-1
Record
16-5
31
Age
−5 yr26
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Lilius Barnatt Martial Arts
Gym
SBG Ireland
Dublin
From
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jay Cucciniello9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 26BODY33%3 of 6LEGS11%1 of 1
Brad Katona35 sig landed
HEAD34%12 of 26BODY20%7 of 10LEGS46%16 of 19
9 of 33
Sig.
strikes
35 of 55
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Jay Cucciniello3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 20BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Brad Katona20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 24BODY5%1 of 2LEGS15%3 of 3
3 of 21
Sig.
strikes
20 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:59
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 8
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jay Cucciniello2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 9BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Brad Katona16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 24BODY0%0 of 1LEGS12%2 of 2
2 of 10
Sig.
strikes
16 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
4:19
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 13
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — Jay Cucciniello first
JudgeTotal
Mike Bell1.9 avg spread · 37% wide26–30
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide26–30
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide26–30

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Jay Cucciniello

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.86 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
5.47 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
34%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Brad Katona

1.86takedowns / 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.

Jay Cucciniello↓ −15.2pp
open 45.2%close 30.0%
Brad Katona↑ +15.2pp
open 54.8%close 70.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jay Cucciniello opened at 45.2% and closed at 30.0% (−15.2pp), with Brad Katona 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
Jay Cucciniello10522245.2%30.0%−15.2pp
Brad Katona-145-26254.8%70.0%+15.2pp
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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