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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Sodiq Yusuff vs Sheymon Moraes
From the tape · 30 Mar 2019

Sodiq Yusuff vs Sheymon Moraes

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Sodiq Yusuff beat Sheymon Moraes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 SodiqYusuff“Super”Team Lloyd Irvin · Camp Springs, Maryland
VSOn the tape
SM
Blue corner SheymonMoraesBlack House · Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro
Featherweight3 rounds30 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Lands 2.3 more significant strikes a minute than Moraes.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Yusuff.
13-5
Record
11-4
−3 yr25
Age
28
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+23
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Team Lloyd Irvin
Gym
Black House
Camp Springs, Maryland
From
Sao Goncalo, Rio de Janeiro
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
Sodiq Yusuff25 sig landed
HEAD20%5 of 11BODY48%12 of 16LEGS32%8 of 13
Sheymon Moraes16 sig landed
HEAD25%4 of 17BODY62%10 of 13LEGS12%2 of 3
25 of 40
Sig.
strikes
16 of 33
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:00
Control
0:36
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDave Brogan10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sodiq Yusuff17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 25BODY41%7 of 9LEGS29%5 of 6
Sheymon Moraes20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 23BODY50%10 of 15LEGS10%2 of 2
17 of 40
Sig.
strikes
20 of 40
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:07
Control
0:45
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDave Brogan9–10Eric Colón9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD YusuffEnded 5:00
Sodiq Yusuff31 sig landed
HEAD71%22 of 52BODY19%6 of 10LEGS10%3 of 6
Sheymon Moraes18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 30BODY33%6 of 12LEGS17%3 of 3
31 of 68
Sig.
strikes
18 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDave Brogan10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–8

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Sodiq YusuffSheymon Moraes
Official totals — Sodiq Yusuff first
JudgeTotal
Dave Brogan29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide29–27

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, Sodiq Yusuff first · unofficial

Cole Shelton Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Keith Shillan FanSided.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ant Walker Sherdog.com29–28
Adam Martin Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Nolan King FloCombat29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yusuff · 81%29-28 Moraes · 12%29-27 Yusuff · 3%30-27 Yusuff · 3%

32 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.

Sodiq Yusuff

0.36takedowns / 15 min
0.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
23%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.40 / 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.

Sodiq Yusuff↑ +4.4pp
open 52.9%close 57.3%
Sheymon Moraes↓ −4.4pp
open 47.1%close 42.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sodiq Yusuff opened at 52.9% and closed at 57.3% (+4.4pp), 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
Sodiq Yusuff-135-14852.9%57.3%+4.4pp
Sheymon Moraes-10512547.1%42.7%−4.4pp
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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