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History · 2018 · UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 · Matt Sayles vs Sheymon Moraes
From the tape · 4 Aug 2018

Matt Sayles vs Sheymon Moraes

UFC 227: Dillashaw vs. Garbrandt 2 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Sheymon Moraes beat Matt Sayles

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Blake Grice

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.

MS
Red corner MattSaylesAlliance MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
SM
Blue corner SheymonMoraesBlack House · Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro
Featherweight3 rounds4 Aug 2018
8-4
Record
11-4
−3 yr24
Age
27
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
68″
Reach
+4″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Alliance MMA
Gym
Black House
San Diego, California
From
Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro
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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
Matt Sayles16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 43BODY50%8 of 10LEGS25%4 of 7
Sheymon Moraes22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 31BODY68%15 of 17LEGS0%0 of 2
16 of 60
Sig.
strikes
22 of 50
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:40
Control
0:03
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sayles firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Sayles25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 60BODY20%5 of 10LEGS24%6 of 7
Sheymon Moraes30 sig landed
HEAD43%13 of 48BODY50%15 of 22LEGS7%2 of 2
25 of 77
Sig.
strikes
30 of 72
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sayles firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matt Sayles36 sig landed
HEAD58%21 of 82BODY28%10 of 10LEGS14%5 of 6
Sheymon Moraes21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 34BODY48%10 of 16LEGS0%0 landed
36 of 98
Sig.
strikes
21 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 33Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sayles firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Blake Grice
Matt SaylesSheymon Moraes
Official totals — Matt Sayles first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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, Matt Sayles first · unofficial

Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Nolan King MMA- Today.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Moraes · 83%30-28 Moraes · 9%29-27 Sayles · 4%

23 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.

Matt Sayles

0.36takedowns / 15 min
0.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.25 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
16%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Sheymon Moraes

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

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Matt Sayles↑ +6.4pp
open 49.1%close 55.5%
Sheymon Moraes↓ −6.4pp
open 50.9%close 44.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Sayles opened at 49.1% and closed at 55.5% (+6.4pp), with Sheymon Moraes 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
Matt Sayles-115-13649.1%55.5%+6.4pp
Sheymon Moraes-12511650.9%44.5%−6.4pp
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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