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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez · Joseph Morales vs Eric Shelton
From the tape · 10 Nov 2018

Joseph Morales vs Eric Shelton

UFC Fight Night: Korean Zombie vs. Rodriguez · Denver, Colorado, USA
Result

Eric Shelton beat Joseph Morales

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Tom Johnson

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 JosephMoralesTeam Alpha Male · Clovis, California
VSOn the tape
ES
Blue corner EricShelton“Showtime”Take The Fight Academy · Lawton, Oklahoma
Flyweight3 rounds10 Nov 2018
15-2
Record
12-6
−3 yr24
Age
27
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+1″69″
Reach
68″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+24
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Take The Fight Academy
Clovis, California
From
Lawton, 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 action1 sub attempt
Joseph Morales7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 23BODY43%3 of 3LEGS14%1 of 1
Eric Shelton7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS71%5 of 5
7 of 27
Sig.
strikes
7 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:07
Control
1:17
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstChris Lee10–9Ben Ramirez9–10Curtis Thrasher10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Joseph Morales12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 21BODY25%3 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
Eric Shelton6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 18BODY50%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
12 of 26
Sig.
strikes
6 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:04
Control
2:40
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Morales firstChris Lee9–10Ben Ramirez9–10Curtis Thrasher10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Joseph Morales5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 12BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Eric Shelton3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 9BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 14
Sig.
strikes
3 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:40
Control
2:48
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morales firstChris Lee9–10Ben Ramirez9–10Curtis Thrasher10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Tom Johnson
Joseph MoralesEric Shelton
Official totals — Joseph Morales first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Ben Ramirez27–30
Curtis Thrasher30–27

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, Joseph Morales first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30
Shawn Bitter MMA- Today.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com27–30
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br27–30
MM AMania.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Shelton · 75%29-28 Shelton · 19%30-28 Shelton · 6%

16 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.

Joseph Morales

1.14takedowns / 15 min
1.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.83 / 15m
2.71 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.55 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
51%
3.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Eric Shelton

2.83takedowns / 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.

Joseph Morales↓ −2.9pp
open 46.2%close 43.3%
Eric Shelton↑ +2.9pp
open 53.8%close 56.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joseph Morales opened at 46.2% and closed at 43.3% (−2.9pp), with Eric Shelton 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
Joseph Morales10012246.2%43.3%−2.9pp
Eric Shelton-140-14453.8%56.7%+2.9pp
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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