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Events · UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega · Brad Katona vs Matthew Lopez
From the tape · 8 Dec 2018

Brad Katona vs Matthew Lopez

UFC 231: Holloway vs. Ortega · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Brad Katona beat Matthew Lopez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Brian Beauchamp

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 BradKatona“Superman”SBG Ireland · Winnipeg, Manitoba
VSOn the tape
ML
Blue corner MatthewLopezGenesis Training Center · Safford, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds8 Dec 2018
The story going in
  • Lands 1.7 more significant strikes a minute than Lopez.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Katona.
16-5
Record
10-4
−5 yr26
Age
31
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
64″
Reach
+5″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
+45
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
SBG Ireland
Gym
Genesis Training Center
Winnipeg, Manitoba
From
Safford, Arizona
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
Brad Katona37 sig landed
HEAD49%18 of 33BODY16%6 of 7LEGS35%13 of 14
Matthew Lopez28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 39BODY29%8 of 16LEGS4%1 of 1
37 of 54
Sig.
strikes
28 of 56
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:24
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Katona firstPatrick Goulah10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brad Katona23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 32BODY13%3 of 8LEGS39%9 of 10
Matthew Lopez18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 26BODY22%4 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
23 of 50
Sig.
strikes
18 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
0:31
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Katona firstPatrick Goulah10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Brad Katona16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 41BODY19%3 of 11LEGS12%2 of 2
Matthew Lopez23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 34BODY22%5 of 7LEGS39%9 of 10
16 of 54
Sig.
strikes
23 of 51
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:13
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Katona firstPatrick Goulah10–9

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 · Brian Beauchamp
Brad KatonaMatthew Lopez
Official totals — Brad Katona first
JudgeTotal
Patrick Goulah30–27

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 — 12 scored, Brad Katona first · unofficial

Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Sherdog.com29–27
Nolan King FloCombat29–28
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
Thiago Kuhl MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Katona · 46%30-27 Katona · 31%30-26 Katona · 8%29-27 Katona · 8%

13 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.

Brad Katona

1.86takedowns / 15 min
1.86 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.32 / 15m
5.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.53 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
60%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Matthew Lopez

3.32takedowns / 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.

Brad Katona↓ −4.3pp
open 64.4%close 60.1%
Matthew Lopez↑ +4.3pp
open 35.6%close 39.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brad Katona opened at 64.4% and closed at 60.1% (−4.3pp), with Matthew Lopez 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
Brad Katona-215-16564.4%60.1%−4.3pp
Matthew Lopez16514235.6%39.9%+4.3pp
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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