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Events · UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders · Renan Barao vs Andre Ewell
From the tape · 22 Sep 2018

Renan Barao vs Andre Ewell

UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

Andre Ewell beat Renan Barao

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Fernando Portella

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.

RB
Red corner RenanBarao“The Baron”Pitbull Brothers · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
VSOn the tape
AE
Blue corner AndreEwell“Mr. Highlight”Apex MMA · Riverside, California
Bantamweight3 rounds22 Sep 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
34-9
Record
17-9
31
Age
−1 yr30
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
70″
Reach
+5″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Pitbull Brothers
Gym
Apex MMA
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
From
Riverside, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Ewell2 sub attempts
Renan Barao19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 19BODY26%5 of 8LEGS5%1 of 1
Andre Ewell4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 8BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 28
Sig.
strikes
4 of 9
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:51
Control
0:28
0
Knock-
downs
1
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 1
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
Renan Barao8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 10BODY38%3 of 8LEGS50%4 of 8
Andre Ewell20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 35BODY45%9 of 10LEGS5%1 of 1
8 of 26
Sig.
strikes
20 of 46
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:05
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
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
Renan Barao17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 32BODY24%4 of 9LEGS24%4 of 6
Andre Ewell29 sig landed
HEAD93%27 of 61BODY7%2 of 5LEGS0%0 of 2
17 of 47
Sig.
strikes
29 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
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

Split Decision

Referee · Fernando Portella
Official totals — Renan Barao first
JudgeTotal
Hallison Pontes2.0 avg spread · 40% wide28–29
Marcelo Vilhena29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

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.

Media cards — 18 scored, Renan Barao first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com28–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Bruno Sader MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ewell · 76%29-28 Barão · 11%28-27 Ewell · 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.

Renan Barao

1.49takedowns / 15 min
1.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.36 / 15m
3.63 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.48 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
75%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Andre Ewell

0.36takedowns / 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.

Renan Barao↓ −9.3pp
open 73.1%close 63.8%
Andre Ewell↑ +9.3pp
open 26.9%close 36.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Renan Barao opened at 73.1% and closed at 63.8% (−9.3pp), with Andre Ewell 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
Renan Barao-350-19573.1%63.8%−9.3pp
Andre Ewell25016726.9%36.2%+9.3pp
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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